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Welcome to the HCL Domino 11.0.1 documentation
Welcome to the HCL Domino® 11.0.1 documentation. Here administrators can find information about planning, installing, configuring, and administering Domino 11.0.1.
Installing
Use this documentation to install the HCL Domino® server and subsequently deploy the HCL Notes®client.
Installing and upgrading Notes® clients
Managing client plug-in deployment
While you can customize your client installer to add new or remove supplied features and plug-ins when you install or upgrade your clients, you can also provision (install and automatically update) stand-alone or third party features and plug-ins to your existing Notes® or Lotus® Expeditor run-time using a combination of Domino® policy or Eclipse preferences, a widget resident in a widgets catalog on an HTTP or Domino server, and a Eclipse update site (with signed features and plugin .jar files) optionally resident in a centrally managed NSF-based update site.
Limiting feature install and update with update sites
Provisioning settings are available on the Client Upgrade tab in the Domino® Administrator server Configuration Settings document. This capability is specific to the Eclipse Update Manager (EUM).

Welcome to the HCL Domino 11.0.1 documentation
Welcome to the HCL Domino® 11.0.1 documentation. Here administrators can find information about planning, installing, configuring, and administering Domino 11.0.1.
- Translated documentation
  The HCL Domino 11.0.1 documentation is currently available in the following languages.
- What's new in Domino® 11?
  Learn about all of the new features for administrators in HCL Domino® 11.
- Overview
  Welcome to HCL Domino® Administrator Help.
- Domino trial
  A trial version of HCL Domino® 11.0.1 is available free of charge.
- Installing
  Use this documentation to install the HCL Domino® server and subsequently deploy the HCL Notes®client.
  - Installing and upgrading Domino® servers
    Perform a new or upgrade install of one or many Domino® servers.
  - Installing and upgrading Notes® clients
    - Notes® Auto Update
      You don't have to rely on third-party products to automate deployment of new versions and updates of HCL Notes® or HCL Client Application Access (HCAA). Instead, you can enable Auto Update (AUT) servers to deploy updates automatically.
    - Customizing Notes® installation
      As an administrator, you can customize the Notes® install and upgrade process for your users to install just the features that they need. For example, you can customize the install kit using MSI tuner capabilities and you can also customize the install kit to add or remove Eclipse-based features.
    - Specifying custom data directories for multi-user install or upgrade
      You can configure Notes® custom data directories during Notes multi-user install or upgrade on Windows™ or Citrix XenApp.
    - Understanding the Notes® single user to multi-user migration assistant tool
      The single-user to multi-user migration tool converts a Notes® single-user installation to a multi-user installation.
    - Using the Notes® Install Cleanup Utility (NICE) tool
      You can use the supplied Notes® Install Cleanup Executable (NICE) tool to clean up a failed install, failed uninstall, or failed upgrade. You can also use the tool to uninstall an existing version of Notes, and clean up extraneous files, before performing an upgrade installation. The tool is available for Notes on supported Windows™ platforms only, and must be run by an administrator.
    - Automating a customized or default Notes® deployment using silent install
      You can use a silent install to deploy a default or customized Notes® release to users without user intervention. This enables centralized Notes install or upgrade deployment to many users without requiring user intervention.
    - Installing and upgrading Notes® in a single user environment
      You can install Notes® on Microsoft™ Windows™ or Citrix platforms in a single user environment using either the Notes-only or the Notes Allclient installer.
    - Installing and upgrading Notes® multi-user
      Installing Notes® in a multi-user user environment enables multiple users to sequentially log in to the same machine and use the same Notes install directory with their own Notes data directory.
    - Installing a non-English version of Notes®
      Notes® is available for install and upgrade in multiple languages.
    - Adding or removing installed Notes® features within a release
      Optionally add new features, or remove installed features, by rerunning the Notes® installation executable within the same release.
    - Managing client plug-in deployment
      While you can customize your client installer to add new or remove supplied features and plug-ins when you install or upgrade your clients, you can also provision (install and automatically update) stand-alone or third party features and plug-ins to your existing Notes® or Lotus® Expeditor run-time using a combination of Domino® policy or Eclipse preferences, a widget resident in a widgets catalog on an HTTP or Domino server, and a Eclipse update site (with signed features and plugin .jar files) optionally resident in a centrally managed NSF-based update site.
      - Client feature deployment
        There are several ways to deploy Notes® client features and plug-ins to users, including a customized add-on installer, a deployment widget and source widget catalog, and a customized Notes install kit. For all methods, the feature or plug-in to be deployed should be properly signed before deployment.
      - Installing a new feature using the Notes® install kit
      - Deploying client plug-ins with widgets and the widget catalog
        You can use a widget to deploy a new feature and corresponding plug-in to an existing Notes® client using a combination of the widgets catalog, an NSF-based update site in which the feature resides, an XML file attached to the widget that calls the feature's update site, and Domino® policy or Eclipse preferences.
      - Creating a customized add-on installer
        The HCL Expeditor framework enables you to create and use an add-on installer as an alternative method for deploying a third-party feature or plug-in to an existing Notes® installation. For example, rather than deploy a custom feature to users as part of the Notes install kit, or use a widget to deploy a custom feature to an existing Notes runtime, you can create and use an add-on installer.
      - Creating a new feature
        You can learn to create custom or third-party features for use with Notes® using these and other resources.
      - Signing custom or third-party features and plug-ins for install and update
        Eclipse plug-ins can be created and used to extend Notes® client functionality. Features and plug-ins are provisioned with the client software.
      - Creating and using an NSF-based update site
        You can use the Eclipse Update Site template to create an NSF-based update site application and then import some or all of the features from an Eclipse update site into the NSF-based update site.
      - Limiting feature install and update with update sites
        Provisioning settings are available on the Client Upgrade tab in the Domino® Administrator server Configuration Settings document. This capability is specific to the Eclipse Update Manager (EUM).
        Specifying available update sites
        Domino® server-based update of features and plug-ins enables you to control which update sites user can obtain features from. Using fields on the server Configuration Settings document in the Domino Administrator client, you can control where (and if) users can obtain features for install and update. If the administrator allows, users can initiate feature install and update. The update process searches an update site or site list for feature updates, as well as updates to composite applications. Update sites can be Eclipse update sites or NSF-based update sites.
      - Creating and using a traditional third-party installer
        Using the Lotus® Expeditor platform, you can create a third party installer to add new features after Notes® has been installed.
      - Configuring component update for composite applications
        You can use composite applications to install or update custom or third-party features in Notes®.
      - Enabling user-initiated update with EUM
        To allow users to install or update custom or third-party Eclipse features and plug-ins into an existing Notes® installation, you can enable display of the Eclipse update manager user interface. By default, the Eclipse update manager (EUM) is not displayed. You can enable the EUM using either Domino® Desktop policy or a plugin_customization.ini file setting.
    - Uninstalling Notes®
      While it is not necessary to uninstall Notes® to upgrade to a new release, you should uninstall a Beta release before upgrading.
  - Upgrading
    Use this documentation to upgrade the existing Domino® server and subsequently upgrade the Notes® client to a new release. You can also upgrade additional clients such as Domino Administrator and Domino Designer clients and additional features and plug-ins such as the embedded HCL Sametime® client.
- Planning
  Use this topic as an overview of planning task.
- Configuring
  Use this information to configure your network, users, servers (including Web servers), directory services, security, messaging, widgets and live text, and server clusters.
- Securing
  This section describes security features, including execution control lists, IDs, and SSL.
- Administering
  This documentation provides information about the administration tools for managing and monitoring servers and databases.
- Tuning
  Use this information to improve HCL Domino® server, Domino Web server, and messaging performance through the use of resource balancing and activity trends, Server.Load commands, advanced database properties, cluster statistics, and the Server Health Monitor.
- Troubleshooting
  This section describes how to find and solve problems with HCL Domino® server and Administrator client.
- Notices

Limiting feature install and update with update sites

Provisioning settings are available on the Client Upgrade tab in the Domino® Administrator server Configuration Settings document. This capability is specific to the Eclipse Update Manager (EUM).

One way of installing and updating third-party features or Notes® sidebar plug-ins is the Eclipse update manager (EUM), which is a user-initiated tool. Alternatively, widgets can be used for automat install and update. For information about provisioning features and plug-ins to an existing Notes® installation, see Deploying client plug-ins with widgets and the widget catalog in the related links. While EUM requires the user to "pull" an install or update, the widgets deployment method enables an administrator to push an install or update without user intervention.

Custom features and plug-ins can be installed as part of Notes® install or using an add-on installer; these methods are described in this guide.

For related information, see Specifying available update sites.

Note: Features installed or upgraded using the Notes® installer are only available for upgrade using the Notes® installer.

An update site can be either a traditional Eclipse update site or a Notes® NSF-based update site, which is based on the supplied UPDATESITE.NTF template.
Feature update can occur if the feature version at the update site is higher than the installed feature version.
Using the Provisioning tab options on the server Configuration Settings document, you can create and allow use of a default list of update sites, allow update from the default update site embedded in the feature (FEATURE.XML) or composite application definition (CA XML), or limit feature update to a specific update site list, referred to as a whitelist.