Populating the Home/Mail Server field in R5 Clients

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I have 3 Domino 6.5 server legacy servers receiving new IP’s. There are approx 400 R5 clients with unpopulated Home/Mail Server values in their location documents and using connection document’s with IP’s to connect to the Domino servers.

I need to:

  1. Remove or disable the connection documents and/or populate them with the FQDN

  2. Add the home server value to the location document

Is there any way to push these settings to the client using the Notes.api and not through database code? We are trying to make this as seamless to the users as possible.

I tried simply adding the home server value to the Notes.ini, but it does not force the population to the location document and server connection fails.

Thanks,

Kristin

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Subject: Populating the Home/Mail Server field in R5 Clients

I have the script needed to accomplish this, but I need a method to run it. Can I force agents to run locally when the user opens the database? The users do not have Notes mail, so I need to send them an .NSF in their Exchange email and have them open it in Notes. If I could make the code run with no further actions, that would be great.

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Subject: RE: Populating the Home/Mail Server field in R5 Clients

Put the database on the server, put your script in the PostOpen event of the Database Script, and send the users a link like this:

notes://servername/path/db.nsf

servername can be FQDN or ip address.

Finish the script with a dialog box telling the user that everything is ok, and then close the database.

/Peter

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Subject: RE: Populating the Home/Mail Server field in R5 Clients

THANK YOU! That is going to work very nicely. Answered my other code questions and have it running now

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Subject: What is required on the workstation to run a Notes:// link?

The link works on one machine and fails on another. What needs to be in place on the Windows workstation for this to work. Reg entries, path statements, etc?

I cannot find any documentation for this method of opening a Notes database.

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Subject: RE: What is required on the workstation to run a Notes:// link?

Basically what’s required is for a Notes client to be properly installed. Where I’ve seen it fail is when something is wrong with the way the desktop was installed or imaged. If, for example, the Notes software was copied rather than installed, or moved to a different directory than where it was installed.

A standard Notes install sets registry entries, but I couldn’t tell you in detail what they are. You do need to make sure that the Notes software is in the directory path that the registry entries expect it to be in, and the notes.ini file is also in that Notes folder.

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Subject: RE: What is required on the workstation to run a Notes:// link?

I think all you will need is for the client to properly resolve the DNS name if you used the Notes server name in the link.