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Missing .itw file from Lotus Notes 8.5.3 Standard install kits

EVRY — Fri, 9 Nov 2012 07:25:12 AM -0400

When using this configuration files with the Tuner, I get an error saying that the config file prohibites opening of the MSI file. Therefore I am unable to create a transform.

SURunAs 2.0

Vitaly Dubenko — Fri, 5 Oct 2012 09:56:45 AM -0400

hi, Jeff

what's the reason to keep using SURunAs if you have ability to run SU kit from local system account via SUService.

this way it'll be possible to create kits without additional steps, providing standard webkits to install on PC for users that has or not local admins rights.

IBM Lotus Notes File versions

Jef Debacker - Agfa-Gevaert — Wed, 12 Sep 2012 07:31:51 AM -0400

From my experience, 851 and 851FP3 have exactly the same nlnotes.exe file. (And for that reason, the intermediate FP1 and FP2 should also have that same file.)

But in the table above, the data is different for each of these 4 releases. Only the file size does not change. For completeness: The values listed for V851 DO correspond with my observations.

This looks like an error to me, and makes me wonder how accurate the other data is.

Upgrading Notes pre-8.5.3 to Notes 8.5.3 using SURunAs on Windows 7/Vista

Mike Burford — Sun, 10 Jun 2012 04:33:21 PM -0400

Just to update from last week, it just needed a reboot. Sorry about that! None of them had rebooted after the Smart Upgrade, just logged out.

Upgrading Notes pre-8.5.3 to Notes 8.5.3 using SURunAs on Windows 7/Vista

Mike Burford — Thu, 7 Jun 2012 08:48:53 PM -0400

Hi Jeff,

Just to let you know of a potential issue that we may be raising a PMR for once we've conducted further testing. Since upgrading Server Admin staff who have roaming profiles in Win 7 from Notes 8.5.2(FP3) to 8.5.3, both the login directly on the PC and via RDP are now taking 10-20 minutes longer. If we disable the Smart Upgrade service and restart Windows they log in without the extended delay.

Regards,

Mike

Upgrading Notes pre-8.5.3 to Notes 8.5.3 using SURunAs on Windows 7/Vista

Kaare Ulleberg — Mon, 23 Apr 2012 09:21:37 AM -0400

Hi Terry We have the same problem were you able to solve it

Regards

Kaare Ulleberg

Help regading installing this 8.5.3 oin w2k8r2 and windows7

Kaare Ulleberg — Mon, 23 Apr 2012 07:56:55 AM -0400

Hi

Read you blog and was hoping you can help me

I have also tried the things you wrote in your blog

as i have got no response from ibm so far

We are trying to deploy lotus notes 8.5.3 on our servers. W2K8R2.

The thing is that the the installation tries to interact with the desktop and as this is no longer supported/working the installation stalls.

The only thing im able to install the program is by install it as a user context but again this is something i dont want to do.

We have the same issue with our windows 7 client

I have not tried to use the surunas command

but againg i was not able to locate this exe file

Hope you can help

Kind regards

Kaare

Combining Notes 8.5.3 and Sametime 8.5.2 into one kit

Venus Guo — Thu, 9 Feb 2012 08:07:39 PM -0400

Dude, may I translate your article to Chinese and post it on our Chinese team blog? of coz will add original author and the URL to the original article \.

Regards,

Qi Ming

Unable to create log file

Terry Boyd — Mon, 30 Jan 2012 06:58:36 PM -0400

Our users do not have access to the root of their C: drives, so they observe an error during the upgrade process -- "Failed to open teh log file C:|SUService.log : 32".

Is there any way to divert the log to another location?

Hello from Orlando!

Alex — Mon, 16 Jan 2012 09:31:20 PM -0400

Wish I could drop by, but unfortunately I wasn't able to make the trip. However this year, I would thank you for the SU Service tool it works great.

Combining Notes 8.5.3 and Sametime 8.5.2 into one kit

Jeff Mitchell — Fri, 16 Dec 2011 03:07:16 PM -0400

Hey Christian,

Yes this is a supported configuration.

And you are once again, correct. The version of UpdateSiteMgr that ships in Notes 8.5.3 does leave some Sametime fragments lying around that prevent the resultant kit from properly installing. I've updated the entry with

information on how to remove them.

Thanks

~jeff

Combining Notes 8.5.3 and Sametime 8.5.2 into one kit

Christian Henseler — Thu, 8 Dec 2011 07:22:20 AM -0400

Great article, thanks again, Jeff :-)

Is this a supported configuration?

In the past, installing the addon using the addon's setup.exe was the only supported way.

Using UpdateSiteMgr -r Sametime (Step 6) does not remove the old Sametime features & plugins completely, I would use TrimUpdateSite 1.1 (provided until 8.5.2) to rip off the old Sametime embedded 8.0.2

Upgrading Notes pre-8.5.3 to Notes 8.5.3 using SURunAs on Windows 7/Vista

Hubert Wagner — Wed, 26 Oct 2011 05:41:10 AM -0400

I've started testing a batch file to install LNSUSvc and install Notes 8.5.3 as well:

=== start of DoUpgrade.cmd ===

@echo off

SET R85FILESPATH=%~dp0

echo "getting Lotus Notes program path..." >>%R85FILESPATH%DoUpgrade.log

reg query "HKLM\Software\Lotus\Notes" /v Path | find "Path" >%R85FILESPATH%LNPath.txt

set /p _LNTemp=<%R85FILESPATH%LNPath.txt

call set _LNPath=%_LNTemp:~16%

echo %_LNPath% >>%R85FILESPATH%DoUpgrade.log

echo "checking for Lotus Notes Smart Upgrade service..." >>%R85FILESPATH%DoUpgrade.log

sc query LNSUSvc | find "STATE" | find "RUNNING" >>%R85FILESPATH%DoUpgrade.log

if errorlevel 1 goto installLNSUSvc

goto LNSUSvc_OK

:installLNSUSvc

echo "installing Lotus Notes Smart Upgrade service..." >>%R85FILESPATH%DoUpgrade.log

copy %R85FILESPATH%SUService.exe %_LNPath%\SUService.exe /y >>%R85FILESPATH%DoUpgrade.log

sc create LNSUSvc binPath= "%_LNPath%\SUService.exe" type= own type= interact start= auto error= normal displayName= "Lotus Notes Smart Upgrade Service" >>%R85FILESPATH%DoUpgrade.log

sc query LNSUSvc >>%R85FILESPATH%DoUpgrade.log

sc start LNSUSvc >>%R85FILESPATH%DoUpgrade.log

sc query LNSUSvc >>%R85FILESPATH%DoUpgrade.log

:LNSUSvc_OK

echo "kicking off Lotus Notes 8.5.3 Standard setup.exe">>%R85FILESPATH%DoUpgrade.log

%R85FILESPATH%setup.exe /s /v"ALLUSERS=1 TRANSFORMS=%R85FILESPATH%LotusNotes853.mst /qb+!"

echo "done with Lotus Notes 8.5.3 Standard setup.exe">>%R85FILESPATH%DoUpgrade.log

:the_End

=== end of DoUpgrade.cmd ===

Above might need some tweaking but my first test shows that you can install LNSUSvc and install Notes 8.5.3 in one go.

Following steps are required:

1.) Copy SUService.exe to your PostTuner folder

2.) Create DoUpgrade.cmd batch file (see above)

3.) Run SUSetRunAsWizard.exe as usual but select DoUpgrade.cmd as the file to execute instead of setup.exe

4.) Test SURunas.exe (which I've renamed Notes853StandardClientOnlypackage.exe)

Regards,

Hubert

Hubert.Wagner@gmail.com

Upgrading Notes pre-8.5.3 to Notes 8.5.3 using SURunAs on Windows 7/Vista

Jeff Mitchell — Fri, 21 Oct 2011 01:17:09 PM -0400

SmartUpgrade was tested end to end using this procedure before we released Notes 8.5.3. What command line are you specifying in the SURunAs? Can you grab the SULog.Log and SUService.log from the root of the drive Windows is installed on (typically C:\)?

Upgrading Notes pre-8.5.3 to Notes 8.5.3 using SURunAs on Windows 7/Vista

Jen — Thu, 20 Oct 2011 10:54:19 AM -0400

Jeff, I have an open PMR. When attempting to do this I find there is a bug with Smart Upgrade itself. It seems to think that it is done right away and either restarts notes right away or puts a message that the install is done while the install is still running (dependent on what you selected in the kit doc).

Can you confirm?

Upgrading Notes pre-8.5.3 to Notes 8.5.3 using SURunAs on Windows 7/Vista

Jeff Mitchell — Tue, 18 Oct 2011 01:39:59 PM -0400

Yes, the SURunAs will continue to work on Windows XP and does not require the new SUService to work.

Missing .itw file from Lotus Notes 8.5.3 Standard install kits

Mike — Mon, 17 Oct 2011 06:53:15 PM -0400

"It's not acceptable to IBM quality standards to simply release a kit..."

Yet it's acceptable to miss a file altogether ...

Upgrading Notes pre-8.5.3 to Notes 8.5.3 using SURunAs on Windows 7/Vista

Iain — Fri, 14 Oct 2011 04:33:32 PM -0400

Is the new SUservice.exe routine compatible with XP as well?

Upgrading Notes pre-8.5.3 to Notes 8.5.3 using SURunAs on Windows 7/Vista

Geoff — Fri, 14 Oct 2011 03:44:35 PM -0400

found it in the Notes program directory once I installed the 8.5.3 admin client.

Upgrading Notes pre-8.5.3 to Notes 8.5.3 using SURunAs on Windows 7/Vista

Geoff — Fri, 14 Oct 2011 02:02:14 PM -0400

where can I find the Notes 8.5.3 Administrator install kit so I can start using SUSetRunAsWizard.exe?