Mail, calendar, and contact features are installed with Lotus Notes, including traditional Lotus Notes functionality. Additional features such as the IBM® Lotus® Productivity Tools, Activities, IBM® Lotus® Sametime® (integrated), and the Composite Application Editor can also be installed.

You can install Lotus Notes using the Notes-only kit or the Allclient kit. The Allclient kit includes IBM® Lotus® Domino™ Designer and IBM® Lotus® Domino™ Administrator and is available for single user installations.

Lotus Notes is available as an install media kit. You can install Lotus Notes in graphical mode, silent mode, and by using Smart Upgrade.

The install media kit consists of the following items:

• Installation program executable file (SETUP.EXE)
• Zipped update site directory UPDATESITE.ZIP (contains Eclipse features folder, plugins folder and SITE.XML file)
• Deploy directory (contains the Eclipse install manifest INSTALL.XML and PLUGIN_CUSTOMIZATION.INI)
• SETUP.INI
• Lotus Notes 8.0.msi

If an existing version of IBM Lotus Domino Designer or IBM Lotus Domino Administrator is resident, you can choose to upgrade them using the Allclient installation media kit. Note that multi-user does not support the Allclient installation program.

The following information is useful when installing or upgrading to Lotus Notes on a Windows client.

Note See the requirements section of the release notes for the latest information on supported hardware and software.

• You must be logged in as an administrative user or user with elevated privileges when you install Lotus Notes multi-user. After the product is installed, users can open and use Lotus Notes.
• Lotus Notes 8 installation on Windows supports Microsoft® Windows® XP and Microsoft® Windows® Vista.
• You can install Lotus Notes on Windows in a single or multi-user environment.
• When installing Lotus Notes using the Windows Allclient kit, feature panel installation options are available for installing or upgrading the Domino Designer and Domino Administrator clients.
• While a minimum of 512MB of memory is required, 1GB or more of memory is recommended. See the "Software requirements" section of the release notes for details.

  A summary panel displays the disk space footprint for what is being installed. Install also needs additional temporary disk space. The temporary disk space required is almost as large as the footprint. If you do not have enough space for the footprint and temporary space, the installer will stop you from continuing.

• Shut down all applications before installing Lotus Notes. No applications should be running when you install Lotus Notes.
• If you have installed a Beta 1 or Beta 2 version of Lotus Notes 8, uninstall it before installing this release of Lotus Notes 8. Upgrade from a Beta 1 or Beta 2 version is not supported. You should not need to uninstall Lotus Notes 8 Beta 3 prior to installing and upgrading to this Lotus Notes 8 release.
• Shared network install is not supported in Lotus Notes 8. Shared network install of Lotus Notes 8 basic configuration remains available.
• Roaming user is not supported in Lotus Notes 8. Roaming user in Lotus Notes 8 basic configuration remains available.
• Lotus Notes 8 supports the English US OS locale only.
• IBM Lotus Productivity Tools support the English US OS locale only.
• The installation path cannot contain special characters such as # or $.
• Only one instance of Lotus Notes 8 should be installed on a client workstation at any given time.
• Once you click "Install" on the Lotus Notes 8 installation panel, allow the installation to complete. Ending the Notes installation process prematurely can leave files in an unstable state, and may also leave empty folders and miscellaneous files on your system. If you experience problems installing Lotus Notes 8 after exiting out of Notes 8 installation prior to its completion, see the release note and help topic entitled "Cleaning a previous Notes 8 installation from the client" as below.
• If installation does not complete successfully, uninstall the program using the instructions in the Uninstalling Notes and reference the information in Cleaning a previous Notes installation from your client.

Lotus Notes pre-installation checklist
Setting up client installation and installation methods
Installing and upgrading to Notes on Windows for a single user
Installing and upgrading to Notes on Windows for multi-user
Updating, adding, and removing installed Notes features
Automating client installation using a silent install
Customizing client installations using the tuner
Customizing Notes installation using the install manifest
Uninstalling Notes

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