Using Notes Auto Update

You don't have to rely on third-party products to automate deployment of new versions and updates of IBM® Notes®. Instead, you can enable Auto Update (AUT) servers to deploy Notes updates automatically.

New Notes install packages are uploaded and distributed to AUT-enabled Domino® servers through an AUT Catalog (autcat.nsf). Notes clients that are enabled through Desktop Settings policy regularly poll the servers to check for new Notes packages to download and install.

The configuration components of AUT servers are:
  • A Domino directory group that you create for the AUT servers.
  • A server Configuration document that you create in which you specify the DNS name that Notes clients use to connect to AUT servers for install updates. Saving this document automatically generates a Web Site document and a Web SSO configuration document for the AUT server or servers.
  • An AUT Catalog (autcat.nsf), created and replicated to AUT servers automatically. The catalog is used to upload new Notes install packages to AUT servers and to define version upgrade paths.
  • Desktop Settings policies (Client Upgrade > AUT tab) that you create to assign users to particular Notes versions to upgrade to.
AUT requirements are:
  • AUT servers must run least Domino 10.0.1 and must be in the same Domino domain.
  • AUT servers require a Domino 10.0.1 or later version of the Domino directory design (pubnames.ntf).
  • Round-robin DNS used for distributing client update requests to multiple AUT servers in a Domino domain.
  • Install kits downloaded from IBM web site (web kits) can be deployed. Install kits on CD-ROM are not supported.
  • Notes clients to be upgraded must be in the same Domino domain as the AUT servers.
  • Notes 10.0.1 or later clients on Windows™ can be upgraded.
  • Notes Mac and iOS platforms are not currently supported for upgrades.
  • Downgrading to prior client versions is not supported.
  • Server upgrades are not supported.