Awesome presentation !! Thanks for sharing.

There’s a little error in page 137. The screenshot shows doupgrade.bat but the text says to select setup.exe as the file to launch.

Anyway, what a great tutorial. Thanks.

Great job! Very timely but, thanks to your prior efforts, most of my clients are already at 8.5.1. Now my concern is how to install just the FP. Maybe I can glean this from your presentation update.

Just found your post here ->http://www.thenewdominoadmin.com/blog/?p=713

Much appreciated.

one thing I have discovered with 8.5.1 is that when you are building a package with susetrunas. You will need at least enough ram to hold the unexpanded full package in memory while the build runs. otherwise the package will fail with an error.

Hi Oliver, thanks for the nice comment … I will re-upload the presentation a modified slide. Thanks for telling me/us about it.

Cool … I hope it helps!

Hi Alex,

The temporary machine that I use to build my packages has 2 gigs of rams which appear to have been enough for me so far … but thanks for sharing this tip! That might help a few people out

Marc

Thanks a lot! Very nice presentation. It will help us a lot. Just few doubts. How can I do the same process for Lotus Notes Basic client? The Fix pack for Basic client is a single .exe file. I am checking how this can be pushed to version 8.5.1 clients. As this is a hotfix, need to check whether silent install can be possible here.

Thanks again for all your help!

Hi Guruprasad,

I have never tried to do the Smart Upgrade of the R8.5.1 basic client. However, you are right: the Fix Pack for the “Basic” client is just 1 file. But, you can try using a silent install of it. Go to a command prompt, go to the directory where the Fix Pack 3 is and then type “lotus_notes851fp3_basic_win.exe -?”. That will bring up a messagebox with the options that you can pass to the “basic” fix pack for a silent install. It looks like “-NOUI” will do the trick for you.

I hope this helps …

Marc

Thanks for all the work and sharing it. Big,Big help.

Hi Marc,

All your presentations are so good and the timing is perfect for this one. Yesterday I was testing the upgrade from 7.0.2 to 8.5 and today I found out how to go straight to 8.5.1 FP3.

Keep doing this… I like it!

By the way, to have Symphony Installed, I need to add SELECT_EDITORS=1 to the setup arguments. Without it, Symphony is missing. SO I got: %R85FILESPATH%setup.exe /s /v”ALLUSERS=1 TRANSFORMS=%R85FILESPATH%LotusNotes851.mst SELECT_EDITORS=1 /qb+!”

You doesn’t need it?

Also, did you try your Package on a French OS… Look like we can’t Install The Notes English Package on a French Win XP and vice versa because we have removed some shortcut.

I got the error:
Error 2254.Database: Transform: Cannot update row that does not exist. Table: Shortcut.

http://www-10.lotus.com/ldd/nd85forum.nsf/ShowMyTopicsAllFlatweb/015c526806b2e6728525773b00686eeb?OpenDocument

Hi Marc,

Have got to see the blog after trying multiple options and the presentation helped to create package and worked well.

Only one thing, couldn’t understand why does it ask me to punch in server name and user name, and also I have to choose ID file … This is something bugging.. as users might not be remembering the server names well.

Your suggestions to debug a bit more on this area will certainly become upgrades smooth.

We plan to upgrade from 7.0.3 to 8.5.1

Thanks
Chinni

Hi Marc,

Thank you for very good presentation.
When I tried to use following commands in batch file, it ended in some error.

SET R85FILESPATH=%~dp0
%R85FILESPATH%setup.exe /s /v”ALLUSERS=1 TRANSFORMS=%R85FILESPATH%LotusNotes851.mst /qb+!”
%R85FILESPATH%FixPack3\setup.exe /S /v”/qb+”.

System was tring to execute frollowing command:

C:\Documents and Settings\username\Local Settings\Temp\SURunas3356\Smartupgrade LN
851 package V4>C:\Documents and Settings\admnit\Local Settings\Temp\SURunas3356\
Smartupgrade LN851 package V4\setup.exe /s /v”ALLUSERS=1 TRANSFORMS=C:\Documents
and Settings\admnit\Local Settings\Temp\SURunas3356\Smartupgrade LN851 package
V4\LotusNotes8.5.1.mst /qb+!”
‘C:\Documents’ is not recognized as an internal or external command,
operable program or batch file.

I tired with follwoing commands which worked prefectly.

SET R85FILESPATH=%~dp0
cd %R85FILESPATH%
setup.exe /s /v”ALLUSERS=1 TRANSFORMS=LotusNotes8.5.1.mst /qb+!”
.\FixPack3\setup.exe /S /v”/qb+”

Thanks and Regards,
Nirmal

Hi Nirmal,

This is just because you used space in your folder name: “Smartupgrade LN851 package V4″

Avoid space in batch script, because then you must add “” to enclose them and it is not always easy to do when your command already contains ” . you must used escape characters.

Hi Steve,

Thank you for your input. Let me try without space.
But I have doubt. if you see here, there is space in “Document and Settings” , “Local Settings”. What to do for these folders?

Hi Nirmal,

Yep, Steve is 100% right … you’ll need to add quotes around certain parts.

SET R85FILESPATH=%~dp0
“%R85FILESPATH%setup.exe” /s /v”ALLUSERS=1 TRANSFORMS=”%R85FILESPATH%LotusNotes851.mst” /qb+!”
“%R85FILESPATH%FixPack3\setup.exe” /S /v”/qb+”.

I hope this helps ..

Marc

Hi Chandrasekhar,

I would say that your user are actually installed in single user mode like:
Prog Dir: c:\notes
Data Dir: c:\notes\data

and then you perform an upgrade to 8.5.1, but in Multi-User mode, so you keep the ProgDir to c:\Notes, but a new Data Folder is created under your Windows Profile Name Folder. Since all the file there are new and the Notes.INI is not configured you must perform the initial user Installation again.

So Double check your MST and be sure you do an upgrade using the same installation mode your user already use. In his presentation, Marc did use the Single User Mode.

Hope this help.

Is it possible to make a kit ONLY available by choosing Tools->Smart Upgrade? I want to make a fix pack voluntary for users who are experiencing issues but not present it automatically to all users who are already weary from the smart upgrade to R8.5.1.

Hey Marc,

Feel free to join an Open Mic on customizing the Notes install kit (not that you need the help )

“IBM is hosting an Open Mic conference call with Lotus Development and Support Engineering to discuss “Customizing the Notes Install Kit”.

The Open Mic call will be held on Wednesday, July 21. The call will take place at 10:00 AM US Eastern Time and will last for 1 hour. Please dial into the call 5 minutes before the scheduled start. This conference call is designed to be an open question & answer format, so bring your questions. Please refer to the Open Mic technote #1433037 for more details”

Hi Andrew,

Thanks for the invite, I just got the email about the call … but yes, I’ll dial-in to listen in. I don’t have any questions for now but you never know. I actually have “enhancement requests” … not questions

Thanks for your comment, it’s very appreciated!

Now … I just need to find the time to create version 4 of the presentation with instructions to add the widget catalog and update site.

Thanks again!

Marc

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