HiI’m in the process of creating a silent installation package for the Notes 8.5.1 client.
Particular customer has requested two custom location documents ACME-Connected and ACME-Disconnected
When you do a standard installation with all the defaults, you get a number of location documents and in that list is Online and Offline. All documents contain the necessary details to access your mail file.
So the installer looks in pernames.ntf and if it finds no documents in the locations view creates the default docs.
So in my kit, I’ve put in a custom pernames.ntf with the two documents mentioned above, and pre-populated all of the generic information required on each document.
When the Notes client starts, it creates a new names.nsf with just the two location docs as specified.
The installation also connects to the server and checks the users credentials and so forth.
However, what the installation fails to do is finish populating the two location documents with the unique data required e.g. mail server, mail file, internet address which are needed for successful running of Lotus Notes.
This calls into question the value of being able to do a customised silent installation at all.
Has anyone come across this, and found an elegant solution for the problem.
I was thinking of possibly adding a startup database to the kit and putting the REP ID into the INI file. This Startup DB would then do a lookup to the Domino directory and finish the job off. but its less than ideal.
Thanks in advance for your responses
Mike