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Upgrading Lotus Notes clients
You can push an upgrade to IBM® Lotus Notes® clients using Lotus Notes Smart Upgrade or other third party mechanism, Smart Upgrade Run-As wizard (SURUNAS), or Upgrade-by-mail. You can also upgrade Notes® clients using the Notes installation executable either silently (command line) or using the installer's graphical user interface. The supplied installation executable is used for an initial install or an upgrade install.

Before you begin the Notes client upgrade, do the following:

Review the Upgrade Cookbook in the Lotus Notes and Domino® wiki.
Review the Considerations topic in this guide specific to your client platform.
Close all open applications, including anti-virus software.
Ensure that users have Write and Modify permissions to the program directory, data directory, and all associated subdirectories.
Have administrative or root access rights required to install/upgrade Lotus Notes.
If you are upgrading Lotus Notes on a Microsoft™ Windows™ system, log in as an administrator or set administrator-level privileges for all users. If administrative rights are not available, enable the setting "Always install with elevated privileges."
For information about using Smart Upgrade with a Linux™ kit, see "Configuring for Lotus Notes 8.5 SmartUpgrade on Linux using RPMs" at the Lotus® Support site.
Back up critical files as described in "Backing up and restoring Notes client data" in the Lotus Notes and Domino wiki
Optionally customize the Notes install kit, for example to add a new signed feature or remove a supplied feature.
Optionally specify Domino policies to be deployed during upgrade.

For information about chaining Smart Upgrade kits see Lotus Tech Note 1438849 "Chaining Notes Smart Upgrade Kits" at the Lotus Support site.

For information about optionally converting an existing Notes single user installation to multi-user, see "Migrating a Notes single user install to multi-user."

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