You can now use the 'Installshield Tuner for Lotus Notes 7 and 8' provided by IBM (probably on the CD, and certainly trough their Passport Advantage program) to generate an. To use this, it is necessary to prepare Lotus Notes for silent installation, which can be done either by extracting the necessary files from the CD or alternatively launch the installation, and whenever it is making first inquiries (except in some cases the inquiry of where to temporarily store the installation files), locate the 'temp' directory to extract the files.
This is a silent installer for Lotus Notes 8.0.x (tested for 8.0.1 and 8.0.2).
Warning: It seems that Lotus Notes 8.5 needs administrator rights at the very first startup after an upgrade as it seems to do some last-minute update-steps on files in %PROGRAMFILES%IBMLotusNotes. Use the instructions in #Lotus Notes 8.0.x to create a deployable silent installer package.And create a package xml similar to: Only does it seem to be necessary to manually uninstall the previous version during the upgrade otherwise it fails on most workstations with the error 'Some files that need to be updated are currently in use' The installation method is exactly the same as for #Lotus Notes 8.0.x. So be sure the users have read access to your WPKG software repository containing this file.
Warning: It seems that Lotus Notes needs access to the UpdateSite.zip from the setup-files at first startup of the client to perform some last minute update steps. The removal commands should not be changed as they still work.Next add an install and an upgrade command after the current install and upgrade commands:.
First add a new check, to be able to confirm if the fix pack is installed or not:.Start adapting your LotusNotes85 package XML file:.When all files are extracted, the real setup wizard will now start.Set the extraction path to %SOFTWARE%LotusNotesLotus85FixPack1 or something alike.Download the fix pack and start the Notes_85FP1Standard_W32.exe file on a test-pc to get the actual installation files.Find it at IBM's Fix Central: Fix Pack is an incremental update for Lotus Notes 8.5 so you should keep your original 8.5 installation package and add the fix pack to it: IBM released Fix Pack 1 for Lotus Notes 8.5. Start installer for 8.5.2 and copy from %temp% the files into %SOFTWARE%LotusNotes852 Lotus Notes 8.5.0.1 (aka 8.5 FP1) Starting with version 9, Notes has been rebranded from 'Lotus Notes' to 'IBM Notes'This is for English language, and uses MST transforms file generate with IBM Notes Installshield Tuner.Fix Pack is not included, it can be delivered as a separate package with lower priority value (ie Notes priority 11, Notes Fix Pack priority 10). Lotus Notes is a mail collaboration software.