Smart Upgrade Runas Feature

Using the Smart Upgrade RunAs feature: The Smart Upgrade RunAs feature is new to Lotus Notes 7.0.2 and is utilized to install Lotus Notes without full administrative privileges. In the Lotus Notes Program directory a new executable is included to launch the Smart Upgrade RunAs Wizard. To configure The Smart Upgrade RunAs feature: 1) Use Windows Explorer to locate your Lotus Notes Program directory. This directory is most likely located at ‘C:\Lotus\Notes’ or ‘C:\Program Files\Lotus\Notes’. 2) Double-click 3) The following ‘SUSetRun Wizard – Welcome’ screen should launch:

4) Select Next > 5) The ‘SuSetRunAs Wizard – Account Information’ screen will prompt you for the following information: • Username: This must be a user account on the local machine with administrative privileges. • Password: The password to the Username account specified. • Domain: The Windows Domain the Username is a part of. If the Username is not part of a Domain specify %computername%.

6) Select Next > 7) The ‘SuRunAs Wizard – Select Executable Packaging’ screen will prompt you to select where to store the upgrade files:

8) If ‘Store files into the SURunAs executable, creating a self-contained package’ is selected and you Select Next >, you will be prompted with the ‘SUSetRunAs Wizard – Select Attachments’ screen.

a. Select Add Files

b. Browse to the location of your Lotus Notes install files. If the files are from a CD and contain multiple files, select all of them to be included:

c. Select Open d. Select to point to setup.exe

e. Select Next > Note: If you are using a Web Kit, simply select to include the kit you downloaded:

9) If ‘Store a reference to a file on a network share’ is selected, and you Select Next >, you will be prompted with the ‘SUSetRunAs Wizard – Reference Information’ screen. a. Include the UNC path to the setup executable or web kit executable on the network share:

b. Select ‘Check UNC Path’ to confirm you have access to the file specified.

c. Select Next > 10) The ‘SUSetRunAs Wizard – Command Line Information’ screen will prompt you to include and command line parameters to be executed when SURUNAS.exe is launched. The MSI property ALLUSERS=1 must be passed on the command line if you are using a Webkit, Upgrade Kit, or Full Install Kit.

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Perhaps the most common parameters are /s /v"ALLUSERS=1 /qb+" in which /s makes the install silent, and /v would pass the ALLUSERS=1 and the qb+ command to the MSI installer. When using a Web kit, for example, use -s -a /s /v"ALLUSERS=1 /qb+" in which -s makes the unpacking of the kit silent, -a passes the arguments to the setup.exe, /s makes the setup.exe silent, and /v passes the ALLUSERS=1 and the qb+ command to the MSI installer.

11) Include the appropriate Command line parameters and Select Next > 12) The ‘SUSetRunAs Wizard – Command Output Information’ screen will prompt you for a location to save the surunas.exe file. Select any location you would like for this file.

13) Select Next > 14) Confirm your settings in the ‘SUSetRunAs Wizard – Summary Information’ screen.

15) Select Finish. (Checking to ‘Save all settings on exit’ is optional) 16) The following ‘SuSetRunasWizard – Results’ screen will be displayed.

17) The surunas.exe and a SURunasWizard.log will be created in the path you specified in Step 12. ** Below is an example of a Smart Upgrade Kit document. Note that you should not specify any optional arguments for the attached surunas.exe file, because they are already included in the executable.

** Note that the ‘Release 6.5.4/6.0.5 or previous’ field should only be set to ‘No’ if the client versions being upgraded are 6.5.5 or above. If the clients about to be upgrade are Release 6.5 through 6.5.4 set the field to ‘Yes’. If you have both 6.5.4 and 6.5.5 clients to upgrade you will need two Smart Upgrade Kit documents in your Smart Upgrade database. For more information on Smart Upgrade and the SURunas Utility refer to the following documentation: Understanding Lotus Notes Smart Upgrade Redbook http://www.redbooks.ibm.com/abstracts/redp4180.html Lotus Software Knowledge Base Document Title: Using the 'Smart Upgrade Run As' feature to upgrade Notes Clients Doc #: 1247849 URL: http://www.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?rs=899&uid=swg21247849 Notes, Domino, and Domino Designer 7.0.2 Release Notes (English) http://www-12.lotus.com/ldd/doc/domino_notes/7.0.2/rn702.nsf