I’ve heard say that if you load the entire Domino components (like from a tape backup) on a clean server, as long as the ini is pointing to the right Domino path; it will just restart if you execute it. No need for registry entries. No need to reinstall and reconfigure Domino.
Is this true? I have a situation where the server operating system needs to be cleaned and resintalled and I want Domino to start as previosly
Subject: There is a registry entry
As pointed out, it does not affect the running of a Domino server or Notes client.
But third party vendors can use the registry to find out if Notes/Domino is installed and where it is installed. The Lotus installer also uses this registry value to see if you are updating your installation to a new version.
Look at HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Lotus\Notes\7.0 in your registry.
There are also other registry entries for COM/OLE objects.
Howard
Subject: Does Domino use the Windows registry, what is in it?
I’m pretty sure that it will work. But I also think that installer writes something to Windows registry and Notes also but it’s not imporant to run Domino/Notes.
Nice reference is available at http://domino-240.drcc.com/ref/registry.nsf/all
Subject: Does Domino use the Windows registry, what is in it?
Hi,
That’s right what you’ve heard. You can take this brand new clean system and just restore domino from backup.
But, I prefer to add a simple step to install it from the original CD (or file), then restore the whole backup. You have some registry entries used by domino, and some DLL’s (only a few, 6 I believe). Using the install trick you will put all the system running. Sometimes there is a need for some integration with the OS, like backup, anti-virus, etc…
HTH,
Daniel