Lotus Domino Administrator 6.5 Help - Adding update kits to the Lotus Notes Smart Upgrade database

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Adding update kits to the Lotus Notes Smart Upgrade database
You can download update kits as they become available from the Lotus Developer Domain http://www.lotus.com/ldd/smartupgrade. After you download a kit, follow these steps to create a Kit document in the Lotus Notes Smart Upgrade database. You can attach the kit to the Kit document or store the kit in a directory on a shared network drive that users can access.

1. In the Domino Administrator client, open the Lotus Notes Smart Upgrade database that you created.

2. Click New Kit to create a Kit document.

3. On the Basics tab, complete the following fields:

In this field Do this

Source version Enter your current Notes client release.
Note To find the current Notes client release number, check the About Notes document. To open the document, choose Help - About Notes.

Operating system Enter or select the operating system for which the kit is intended.

Localization Enter or select the language of the Notes Client.

Destination version Enter the release number of the update kit.
The value of this field must match the value in the Deploy Versions field of the desktop policy settings document.

4. Select the Enabled check box to make the kit available to authorized users.

5. Click the Data tab, then choose the option for the location of the update kit.

6. Depending on the option that you choose, do one of the following:

If you choose "Attached to this note," click the Attachment icon, then attach the update kit or full installation kit.

Note Attach the EXE file that you downloaded to the document without decompressing the file.

If you choose "On a shared network drive," enter the file path to the SETUP.EXE. Follow this convention:

\\networkfileservername\shareddirectoryname\setup.exe

When you use the shared network drive option, make sure to decompress the file, then copy all files in the installation kit to the directory specified.

To enable the display of a progress bar during the silent install, in the Optional Arguments field enter these arguments:

/s /v"qb"

The use of these optional arguments to display a progress bar applies to Install Kits and Upgrade Kits. It does not apply to Web Kits.

7. Click the Admin Notes tab, then enter the message that will appear when Lotus Notes Smart Upgrade prompts users to upgrade their Notes clients.

8. Click the Administration tab, then complete the following fields:

In this field Do this

Allowed Users Enter or select the users or groups allowed to upgrade their Notes clients. To include all users in your organization, enter a value using the following format:
*/OrgUnit/Organization/CountryCode

Owners Enter or select the persons who own this document.

Administrators Enter or select the persons who administer the document.

9. Click Save and Close.

10. Create a desktop policy to deploy the update kit.

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In this field	Do this
Source version	Enter your current Notes client release. Note To find the current Notes client release number, check the About Notes document. To open the document, choose Help - About Notes.
Operating system	Enter or select the operating system for which the kit is intended.
Localization	Enter or select the language of the Notes Client.
Destination version	Enter the release number of the update kit. The value of this field must match the value in the Deploy Versions field of the desktop policy settings document.

In this field	Do this
Allowed Users	Enter or select the users or groups allowed to upgrade their Notes clients. To include all users in your organization, enter a value using the following format: */OrgUnit/Organization/CountryCode
Owners	Enter or select the persons who own this document.
Administrators	Enter or select the persons who administer the document.