Admin Client and "No default domain found" message

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I recently installed 8.5.1 (Notes, Designer, Admin) and when I click the Admin icon, I get the same message:

"No default domain found:

Please set your Administrator Preferences to the domains you want to manage"

I found this in the help:

https://infocenters.lotus.com/domino/index.jsp?topic=/com.ibm.help.domino.admin85.doc/H_SETTING_BASICS_PREFERENCES_STEPS.html

But, if I cannot open the Admin client, how do I set the preferences? A notes.ini setting?

Thanks!

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Subject: Changed notes.ini settings, no luck

I went through my notes.ini and found a few entries;AdminLastDomain

AdminSetup

but they had values associated with them and when I changed them, still got the same error.

Any help would be great — lost on this one…

Thanks!

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Subject: No default domain found. Please set your administration preferences…’ after install

Is there a solution to this problem? I am having the same issue. I am using the Notes clients on Windows 7. Is the Admin client supported on Windows 7?

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Subject: Found a fix

If you install the client using the client only installer, then go back and installed the designer and admin using the client/admin/dev installer, you get this error when starting the admin client.

If you look in the add/remove program listing, you may see two ‘Lotus Notes’ entries. Try and uninstall the ‘client only’ first, then the admin/dev stuff. I failed to do this (and I’m not sure you actually can, but you should try) and I got into a mess. In order to get out, I:

Reinstalled the client/admin/dev software

Used the IBM ‘setup’ routine to remove them

Did an add/remove to delete the remaining Lotus Notes app - this failed but the entry disappeared.

Deleted the ‘IBM’ directory tree.

Reinstalled using the client/admin/dev installer into a completely different directory.

Started the client and completed the initial setup.

Now, the admin client comes up I got an error that there was not default domain but it connected to the admin server and from there I could set my admin preferences.

HTH