Lotus Domino Administrator 8 Help - Update user from non-roaming to roaming user

Update user from non-roaming to roaming user
You can use the IBM® Lotus® Domino™ Administrator to update a user from a nonroaming state to a roaming state by selecting the user and choosing People - Roaming from the tools pane.

For information on how to upgrade a user to roaming, see Upgrading a non-roaming user to roaming.

Update client information in the Person record

Triggered by:

From the Domino Administrator, initiating the action to upgrade a user from nonroaming status to roaming status.

Carried out on: The administration server for the Domino Directory.

Carried out: Immediately

Result: Updates the User Can Roam field to "In Process" on the Roaming tab of the user's Person document in the Domino Directory.

Create roaming user's replica stubs

Triggered by:

The selected user logging into IBM® Lotus® Notes® after the administrator has initiated the action to update the user's status to Roaming and the "User can roam" field on the Roaming tab of the user's Person document has been changed from "No" to "In Process."

Carried out on: The server that will house the roaming files.

Carried out: Immediately

Result: Creates replica stubs of the roaming files on the user's roaming server.

Update Roaming User information in Person record

Triggered by:

The selected user logging into Notes after the administrator has initiated the action to update the user's status to Roaming and the "User can roam" field on the Roaming tab of the user's Person document has been changed from "No" to "In Process."

Carried out on: The administration server for the Domino Directory.

Carried out: Immediately

Result: Updates the Personal Address Book field, Bookmarks filename, and Journal filename fields on the user's Person document in the Domino Directory. Generates the "Monitor roaming users replica stubs" request.

Monitor roaming users replica stubs

Triggered by:

Successful completion of the "Update roaming user information in Person record" request.

Carried out on: The user's roaming server.

Carried out: Immediately

Result: Recognizes when replication occurs, and then generates the "Update roaming user state in Person document" request.

Update roaming user state in Person document

Triggered by:

Successful completion of the "Monitor roaming users replica stub" request. Successful replication of the roaming files to the roaming server.

Carried out on: On the administration server of the Domino Directory.

Carried out: Immediately

Result: The "User can roam" field on the Roaming tab of the user's Person document is updated from "In Progress" to "Yes."

See also

Changing a nonroaming user to roaming

Administration process requests

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