Lotus Domino Administrator 8 Help - Customizing the installer process

NOTES CLIENT INSTALLATION AND SMART UPGRADE

Customizing the installer process
Use the following process to customize IBM® Lotus® Notes® installation.

1. Customize traditional Lotus Notes capabilities for install using a transform file.

This procedure is identical to the tuner tasks used in earlier releases of Lotus Notes.

For information about the Notes tuner, see the Creating a transform file topic.

2. Customize the Lotus Notes installation media kit content.

This task involves editing the install manifest (deploy\install.xml). If you are adding new features, it also involves adding any custom or third-party feature and plug-in JAR files to the correct features and plugins subdirectories in a customized update site and ensuring that the update site manifest (SITE.XML) correctly lists the contents of those subdirectories. If you are adding custom or third-party features and plug-ins, sign them and also establish signing preferences in the deploy\plugin_customization.ini file).

3. (Optional) If you added new features in step 2, run the addToKit command line tool to copy the contents of a customized update site (features subdirectory, plugins subdirectory and SITE.XML file) to the update site in the Lotus Notes install kit structure (UPDATESITE.ZIP).

4. Distribute the customized Lotus Notes installation media kit.

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