NOTES CLIENT INSTALLATION AND SMART UPGRADE

Enabling user-initiated update
To allow users to install or update custom or third-party Eclipse features and plug-ins into an existing IBM® Lotus® Notes® installation, you can enable display of the Eclipse update manager user interface. By default, the Eclipse update manager is not displayed. You can enable this user interface option using either an IBM® Lotus® Domino™ desktop policy or a PLUGIN_CUSTOMIZATION.INI file setting.

Enabling user-initiated update using a Domino desktop policy

You can enable users to manually install or update custom or third-party features from an update site by setting a Domino desktop policy, as described below.

1. Using the IBM® Lotus® Domino™ Administrator client, open the Desktop policy settings document.

2. On the Basics tab, locate the Provisioning section at the bottom of the document.

3. In the Allow user to do user initiated updates field, click Enable to allow user-initiated updates or Disable to prevent user-initiated updates.

Once this setting is resident, users can access the Eclipse update manager from within Lotus Notes by clicking File - Application - Install. Information about using the update manager is available in the Notes help.

This setting overrides the user-initiated update setting that may reside in the PLUGIN_CUSTOMIZATION.INI file.

Enabling user-initiated update using a plugin_customization.ini setting

You can enable user-initiated update in the plugin_customization file either before or after Notes install.

To expose the Eclipse update manager in Lotus Notes, add the following line to the user's PLUGIN_CUSTOMIZATION.INI file (<install_dir>/framework/rcp/plugin_customization.ini) and then restart Notes.


Once this statement is resident, users can access the Update Manager from within Lotus Notes by clicking File - Application - Install. Information about using the update manager is available in the Notes help.

This setting is overridden by Domino desktop policy.

Note that if this setting is resident in the PLUGIN_CUSTOMIZATION.INI file in the Lotus Notes install media kit (deploy\plugin_customization.ini) when Lotus Notes is installed, the preference will be available automatically to the Lotus Notes user.

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