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Re: Convert Lotus Notes from Single User to Multi User

Your mileage may vary...this has been modified for current times but is based upon our conversion from v7.0.4 to v8.0.2 a while back. It is not guaranteed to be complete, you should try this in a test enviroment until you are sure it works, you will probably find other things you need to adjust, etc.

If you're staying with the same version of Notes you might still need to reinstall.

{USERPROFILE} used below means the user's Windows user profile directory (USERPROFILE environment variable)
{ALLUSERSPROFILE} used below means the common "All Users" Windows user profile directory (ALLUSERSPROFILE environment variable)


Stop all running copies of the Lotus Notes client on the system...

Uninstall the Lotus Notes client...


From the user's account:

Change the registry:

HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Lotus\Notes\v8.0\NotesIniPath={USERPROFILE}\Local Settings\Application Data\Lotus\Notes\Data\notes.ini


Copy the user's data files from the previous (common) data directory (e.g., "C:\Program Files\IBM\Lotus\Notes\Data") to:

{USERPROFILE}\Local Settings\Application Data\Lotus\Notes\Data

E.g.:

notes.ini
Cache.NDK
cluster.ncf
desktop6.ndk
diagindex.nbf
frstrings.dat
ini.nbf
JOBSCHED.NJF
ticket.idt
*.id
*.nsf
keyview.ini


Zap the user's notes.ini file, changing the following:

Directory={USERPROFILE}\Local Settings\Application Data\Lotus\Notes\Data

SPELL_DIR=C:\Documents and Settings\All Users\Application Data\Lotus\Notes\Data\Shared

SharedDataDirectory={ALLUSERSPROFILE}\Application Data\Lotus\Notes\Data\Shared

InstallType=6

InstallMode=1




From an account with Administrator access:

Change the registry:

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Lotus\Notes\MultiUser=1

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Lotus\Notes\DataPath=""

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Lotus\Notes\v8.0\MultiUser=1

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Lotus\Notes\v8.0\DataPath=""


Create the "All Users" directory:

{ALLUSERSPROFILE}\Application Data\Lotus\Notes\Data


We ran SETACL against that directory to set the ACL:

setacl -on "{AllUsersProfile}\Application Data\Lotus\Notes\Data" -ot file -actn ace -ace "n:S-1-5-11;p:change;s:y;i:so,sc;m:grant;w:dacl" -actn rstchldrn -rst "dacl"



Now, install the Lotus Notes Client.


Feedback response number WEBB8EYMRX created by ~Sarah Cistoomarader on 03/15/2011

Convert Lotus Notes from Single Use... (~Vijay Bubremar... 14.Mar.11)
. . Multi user client (~Rebecca Kijipy... 15.Mar.11)
. . . . Re: Convert Lotus Notes from Single... (~Sarah Cistooma... 15.Mar.11)




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