Gregg Eldred

A customer purchased a big, bad Windows Terminal Server 2008 64-bit. Among the applications to be deployed on the platform was supposed to be Lotus Notes Release 8.5.1. When asked about this, the first thing I did was search the TechNotes. That research resulted in this:

Question
Is the Lotus Notes client supported on Microsoft Windows Server 2003 or Windows Server 2008 Terminal Services? You are unclear as to whether Lotus Notes clients are supported in a Terminal environment on Windows Terminal server without Citrix MetaFrame installed. In this scenario, the Notes client would be installed on a Windows 2003 terminal client and on Windows Server 2003 Terminal Services.

Answer
No, the Notes client is not designed or supported to run in this scenario (using a Windows Terminal client and Windows Server Terminal Services). A Notes client can run on a Windows 2003 or 2008 Terminal Server only if Citrix MetaFrame is used as well. While Windows Server Terminal Services emulation with Lotus Notes can work, this configuration is not supported.

A correct assumption would be that Citrix MetaFrame was not being used.

As the network administrator was attempting to determine how to workaround this "setback," I continued to search for possible answers on PlanetLotus and the Forums. In the Notes/Domino 8.5 Forum, I found, and turned over to the network administrator, this (somewhat edited from the original):

1) After installing 8.5.1, search for the notes,ini and it should not appear in the windows folder. Delete it if you found it there.

2) The notes.ini file should appear in c:\documents and settings\All users\application data\lotus\notes\data\ and the content in it should be: (please note the actual path should be according to your environment)

[Notes]
KitType=1
SharedDataDirectory=C:\Documents and Settings\All Users\Application Data\Lotus\Notes\Data\Shared
InstallType=6

3) edit the following registry entries:
[HKLM\Software\Lotus\Notes\DataPath] Remove the value.
[HKLM\Software\Lotus\Notes\MultiUser] Change the value from 0 to 1.
[HKLM\Software\Lotus\Notes\8.0\DataPath] Remove the value.
[HKLM\Software\Lotus\Notes\8.0\MultiUser] Change the value from 0 to 1.

Moments later, I was confronted by a very happy administrator, as he had Notes 8.5.1 running successfully on Microsoft Terminal Server. The downside is that there will probably be no support from Lotus for this configuration.

Link: Is Lotus Notes supported on Windows Terminal Services?

Link: Notes/Domino 8.5 Forum: Yew Lee Yong: 8.5.1 works in Terminal Server 2003 32/64 bit

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Comment posted by Richard Moy11/11/2009 10:23:35 AM
Homepage: http://www.dominointerface.com

Are they using the Basic client?

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Comment posted by Michael Albright11/11/2009 02:01:40 PM
Homepage: http://www.ns-tech.com

All,

We installed using the Standard Client so we could take advantage of Widgets from the devlopment standpoint.

NOTE: one variation from the article Gregg supplied was the registry key that is referenced to HKLM\SOFTWARE... on our 64Bit install it was HKLM\SOFTWARE\Wow6432Node\Lotus

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Comment posted by Michael Albright11/12/2009 04:16:21 PM
Homepage: http://www.ns-tech.com

I am now faced with a different issue.

I am utilizing Terminal Server Profiles redirection VIA GPO
I am see that Notes has put information into c:/Documents and Settings/Username/Local Settings/AppData instead of \\UNC-Path-to-Server\TSPROFILES\username\AppData.

Because of this, I can login 10 times as a user and everytime I open Notes it acts like it's the first time.

If I login remote or local as administrator all is well with no issues whatsoever . . .

Been extra busy and havent tried to correct yet, but I will post back when I get time to correct the issue.

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Comment posted by Charles Robinson11/23/2009 04:07:44 PM
Homepage: http://www.cubert.net

@Michael - I remember having that problem, too. Double check that you updated all the Registry settings properly.

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Comment posted by Michael Albright11/24/2009 06:05:26 AM
Homepage: http://www.ns-tech.com

We found in this instance the issues were that Roaming Profiles in Notes made the server very angry. Once I converted to a non roaming user it has worked like a charm except the fact it still forces the local profile to *documents and settings-local settings-app data* instead of the roaming profile path that all other items are going into...

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