Lotus Domino Administrator 8 Help - Products to install and order of installation

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Products to install and order of installation
The following information lists the servers and products you need to install to use IBM® Lotus® Notes®.

Servers to install

1. IBM® Lotus® Domino™ server.

2. (Optional) IBM® DB2® running with a Domino 8 server. Required if you want to create and use DB2 enabled Lotus Notes databases.

3. (Optional) IBM® Lotus® Sametime® server. Required if you want awareness and chat in the Lotus Notes client.

4. (Optional) Lotus Connections Server. Required if you want to use Activities from within the Lotus Notes client. For information, see the Lotus Connections documentation.

5. (Optional) IBM® WebSphere® Portal server. Required if you want to use composite applications that contain portlets.

(Optional configuration) To use the Portal administrative user interface on the Portal server to administer both Domino and WebSphere Portal, configure Domino and Portal server federated administration. For information, see the topics "Running the Domino-Portal integration wizard" and "Configuring Domino and Portal Server federated administration."

Note (Optional) Install WebSphere Portal composite application support for Lotus Notes, previously named "Notes server client installer" on the WebSphere Portal server. This is required in order to work with composite applications that contain portlets or to edit portlets using the Composite Application Editor.

Clients to install

1. Lotus Notes 8. This provides Mail, Calendar, Contacts, and options including IBM® Lotus® Productivity Tools, Composite Application Editor, Activities, and IBM® Lotus® Sametime® (integrated).

Note

For Microsoft® Windows® users, if Lotus Notes version 6.5.x or 7.x is detected on the client, the installation program will upgrade it to Lotus Notes 8.

Note For Linux® users, upgrade from Lotus Notes version 7.x is not supported. Linux users should uninstall their existing Lotus Notes version and then install Lotus Notes 8.

For Windows multi-user installation, the Lotus Notes client-only is available in the Notes.msi.w32 installation media kit.

For Windows single user installation, the Lotus Notes, IBM® Lotus® Domino™ Administrator and IBM® Lotus® Domino™ Designer clients are available in the AllClient.msi.w32 installation media kit.

For Linux, the Lotus Notes client-only is available in the Notes.ismp.linux installation media kit.

2. (Optional) Domino Administrator and Domino Designer.

For Windows single user installation, the Domino Administrator client and Domino Designer client are available, along with the Lotus Notes client, in the AllClient.msi.w32 installation media kit.

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