Installation of Notes on Microsoft® Windows® is supported for single user or multi-user. For Windows, the Lotus Notes client-only is available in the Notes.msi.w32 installation media kit. The Lotus Notes, IBM® Lotus® Domino™ Administrator, and IBM® Lotus® Domino™ Designer clients are available in the AllClient.msi.w32 installation media kit. When installing Notes in a single user environment using the Windows Allclient kit, you can install or upgrade the Domino Designer and Domino Administrator clients.

For information about installation considerations, see the topic Considerations before installing Lotus Notes on Windows.

1. Shut down all applications.

2. If you have installed a Beta 1 or Beta 2 version of Lotus Notes 8, uninstall it before continuing. You should not need to uninstall Lotus Notes 8 Beta 3 prior to installing/upgrading to this Lotus Notes 8 release.

3. Obtain the Lotus Notes installation media kit.

For example, obtain the installation media kit CD or open a browser and navigate to the Lotus Notes/Domino Web site at which the installation media kit resides.

5. Navigate to the folder in which you saved the installation media kit.

6. Locate and run the SETUP.EXE installation executable.

Note If a user has the environment variables USERPROFILE, HOMEDRIVE, or HOMEPATH set to a network share, you must use special command line parameters to ensure that all data directories are installed locally, thus eliminating issues with network shares. You can check for these environment variables by typing "SET" at a command prompt. If HOMEDRIVE is not set to C:, you must review this instruction carefully. For example, if HOMEDRIVE=H: (where "H" may be a mapped network drive).

8. Read and accept the license agreement terms and click Next.

9. Enter your user name and organization, choose the "Single-user Install" setting, and click Next.

10. Accept the default install directory or specify a different installation directory and click Next.

The default installation directories for a new single user install on Windows are as below:
• Lotus Notes 8 product and binary files installation directory -- C:\Program Files\IBM\Lotus\Notes
• Data directory -- C:\Program Files\IBM\Lotus\Notes\data
• Workspace directory -- C:\Program Files\IBM\Lotus\Notes\data\workspace
• Lotus Notes 8 Java code installation directory -- C:\Program Files\IBM\Lotus\Notes\framework
If a Lotus Notes version is currently installed, the default path is the current Lotus Notes installation path. When you install Lotus Notes single user on a system on which Lotus Notes 6.5 or 7.x is already installed, the traditional Lotus Notes portion of the product is upgraded and installed to the same directory in which the existing Lotus Notes install binaries currently reside, for example C:\Lotus\Notes. The Lotus Notes data directory is assumed to be the directory where the existing Lotus Notes install data files exist, for example C:\Lotus\Notes\data. Additional IBM® Lotus® Expeditor framework files are installed to a \framework subdirectory, for example C:\Lotus\Notes\framework.

These options include the following:

Notes client -- The Lotus Notes client is installed automatically but you can control which individual sub-features to install.

• Domino Administrator -- Select this to install or upgrade the Domino Administrator client and specify which subfeatures to install.
• Domino Designer -- Select this to install or upgrade the Domino Designer client and specify which subfeatures to install. Note that the Property Broker Editor is installed automatically with Domino Designer.
• Activities --Select this to install the Activities feature. An activities server is required to use this feature.
• Composite Applications Editor -- Select this to install the Composite Applications Editor for use with composite applications.
• IBM Lotus Productivity Tools -- Select this to install IBM® Lotus® Productivity Tools including IBM Lotus Documents, IBM Lotus Presentations, and IBM Lotus Spreadsheets.
• Sametime (integrated) -- Select this to install basic IBM® Lotus® Sametime® capabilities such as chat and live names. A Sametime server is required to use this feature.

13. Read the preview screen and click Install to continue or click Back to revise your feature selections.

Note If errors occur and you are installing Lotus Notes 8 on a system in which an existing Beta version of Lotus Notes 8 was installed, the existing version may not have been properly uninstalled.

14. When installation is complete, read the summary screen and click Finish to exit the installation wizard.

The installation program creates new shortcut icons on your desktop, including those for the Lotus Notes client itself and the productivity tools, Domino administrator client, and Domino Designer client, if you chose to install those features.

If this is a new install, respond to the configuration wizard prompts. Your administrator can supply the Domino server and configuration information to you.

1. Click Open - Mail or the Mail tab.
2. Click File - Application - Replace Design.
3. Select the Mail (R8) (MAIL8.NTF) template from the list.
4. Disable the Inherit future design option.
5. Click Replace, and then click OK or Yes in response to any prompts.
6. Close the Mail tab. The new design will appear when you open Mail after client restart.
7. Click Open - Contacts or the Contacts tab.
8. Click File - Application - Replace Design.
9. Select the Personal Address Book (PERNAMES.NTF) template from the list.
10. Disable the Inherit future design option.
11. Click Replace and then click OK or Yes in response to any prompts.
12. Close the Contacts tab. The new design will appear when you open Contacts after restarting the Lotus Notes client.

You must restart Lotus Notes after replacing the mail and contacts template designs.

Lotus Notes pre-installation checklist
Considerations before installing Lotus Notes on Windows
Setting up client installation and installation methods
Installing Notes in a single user environment
Automating client installation using a silent install
Customizing client installations using the tuner
Customizing Notes installation using the install manifest
Updating, adding, and removing installed Notes features
Uninstalling Notes

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