Comments on: Notes 8 and Notes 7 coexistence

By: Martin Vereecken

Martin Vereecken — Mon, 18 Aug 2008 06:49:27 +0000

Hi Chris,

I suggest you take a look at Thomas’s article then, it’s a great help: http://www.assono.de/blog/d6plinks/Running-Notes-R5-6-7-8-concurrently

Regards,
Martin

By: Chris Hill

Chris Hill — Tue, 12 Aug 2008 13:55:54 +0000

Hi. Does this work OK for 6.5.5 and 8 coexisting ?

Everything seems to be OK with Notes client but I can’t get Designer 6.5 and 8 running at the same time.

By: Patrick Kwinten

Patrick Kwinten — Sun, 16 Mar 2008 17:46:44 +0000

DONT FOLLOW THIS SETUP, ONE REASON: YOUR PREVIEW IN WEBBROWSER WILL NOT FUNCTION ANY MORE

By: Patrick Kwinten

Patrick Kwinten — Thu, 13 Mar 2008 08:39:58 +0000

well I followed these steps and guess what: ALREADY DURING THE INSTALLATION OF NOTES 8 I GET ERROR MESSAGES LIKE: ERROR 1905 MODULE C:PROGRAM FILES\LOTUS\NOTES\NLSXBE.DLL FAILED TO UNREGISTER + CWPPROO25E: AN UNEXPECTED ERROR OCCURRED WHILE PROCESSING THE PROVISIONING MANIFEST

SO THANKS IBM FOR SCREWING UP MY WORK-ENVIRONMENT!

why can those people just not supply an installation-program where you can easily install multiple notes clients beside each other??!!

By: Patrick Kwinten

Patrick Kwinten — Thu, 13 Mar 2008 08:35:52 +0000

well I followed these steps and guess what:

By: Thomas Bahn

Thomas Bahn — Sat, 29 Dec 2007 22:03:48 +0000

Before installing an upgrade (”point-version”) or a third-party product (like Ytria, Noteshound, DDSearch, etc.) I delete HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Lotus\Notes and rename HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Lotus\NotesX back to HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Lotus\Notes (X is the version, I update or install into). In case of an update I additionally rename HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Lotus\NotesX back to HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Lotus\Notes.

Afterwards I export HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Lotus\Notes into a new reg file, rename HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Lotus\Notes to HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Lotus\NotesX and import all other reg files.

This way, all installations are absolutely “clean”.

By: Martin Vereecken

Martin Vereecken — Sat, 29 Dec 2007 16:32:00 +0000

Hi Thomas,

Thanks for sharing your technique! But I don’t understand why you export and import the keys, instead of just changing them?

By: Thomas Bahn

Thomas Bahn — Sat, 29 Dec 2007 10:45:04 +0000

The sunny boy was the digit 8 followed by a closing bracket.

By: Thomas Bahn

Thomas Bahn — Sat, 29 Dec 2007 10:43:22 +0000

I have installed Notes R5, 6, 7 and 8 (and Domino 6, 7 and on my Windows machine.

I got into the habit to install them in %ProgramFiles%\NotesX with X is the version number.

Registry keys: I export HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Lotus\Notes to notesX.reg and rename HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Lotus\Notes to HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Lotus\NotesX directly after the installation, as well as
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Lotus\Notes to HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Lotus\NotesX.

Then I import all notesX.reg files back into the registry. This is only important for Notes 8, since it uses a license file, which it locates using the registry information.

And all clients can run concurrently: I have to start Notes 8 Standard first, then all other versions using their respective nlnotes.exe.