Lotus Notes 7 Help - Using Notes Smart Upgrade

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Using Notes Smart Upgrade
Your Domino administrator can set up IBM Lotus Notes Smart Upgrade to send you a notification to upgrade your Notes client to a later release. Whenever you log into your Domino home server, Lotus Notes Smart Upgrade compares your installed version of Notes to the version the administrator has made available, and prompts you to upgrade if appropriate.

Before you begin upgrading your Notes client, make sure that you do the following:

If the computer on which you are upgrading runs anti-virus software, close the application.
If you are upgrading Lotus Notes on an Apple computer running OS X, turn off all options in the Application Sharing tab of the Shared System Preferences panel to avoid any errors.
If your computer is Windows NT, 2000, or XP, you should log onto your computer with administrative rights to install Lotus Notes. For cases in which administrative rights are not available, enable the setting "Always install with elevated privileges." Refer to the Release Notes for the most current information on permissions required when installing as a non-administrator.
Options for installing the Lotus Notes client on Restricted or Standard/Power User computers are described in the Microsoft Windows 2000, Windows XP, and Windows Installer documentation.

When you are prompted to upgrade, you might see additional instructions from your administrator. For example, the administrator might indicate the server from which the install will run so that you can make sure you are mapped/logged in to the server before selecting "Upgrade Now" -- to avoid your encountering connection or access errors.

You can choose to update now or delay the upgrade for as long as is allowed by the "grace period" cited in your administrator's instructions. If you need a reminder, you can select when to be reminded in the "Remind me in" field.

At the end of the grace period, if your Notes client has not been updated, Lotus Notes Smart Upgrade presents you with an "Update Now" button that forces you to update. If your administrator has set an additional option, you also see a "Remind me in an hour" button. Pressing "Remind me in an hour" displays the upgrade screen every hour until you upgrade.

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