How To Install IBM Notes Client and Domino Server for Development

Last Updated: August 4, 2013

You will need to download three files from IBM:

1. Notes Client
2. Domino Designer and Domino Administrator
3. Domino Server

Notes Client:

http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/downloads/ls/lsndad/

File: NOTES_9.0_WIN_EN_EVALUATION.exe

Domino Designer and Domino Administrator:

http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/downloads/ls/dominodesigner/

File: DOMINO_DESIGNER_DEV_9.0_WIN32_EN.exe

Domino Server
http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/downloads/ls/lsds/

DOMINO_SERVER_9.0_Trial_WIN32_EN.exe

Keep Calm and Domino

Install the Domino Server

 Lotus is now dead. We better reflect it’s death in the directory so that it does not haunt us.

 Select customize because there are components that we just would not use forever.

 

We will never need the Billing component. Ever.

We do not need clustering, this sample is for a development server only.

 Keep Calm and Domino

 Run the server

 For a development server, select all except for Billing which we will never user. Ever.

 We should allow Anonymous access so that we would be able to test more features regarding logging in.

 

Keep Calm and Domino

And there it is on our desktop!

 Run the server

 On second run, it displays like this:

Install the Notes Client

  
Select IBM Connections and Composite Application Editor

Because Notes is slow, I’d rather not select these:

Keep Calm and Domino

 

And there it is on our desktop!

 Use the Admin id from our server setup.

  
The console should show that the Admin id has been given a session.

Keep Calm and Domino

I love Notes, but we all know how slow it opens :)

“It’s alive!” - Dr. Frankenstein
 

 The console should show that the email was routed

 Check the Workspace

 All shiny and new!

 Install the Designer and Administrator

 

I guess we do not need to install with three files; we only need this file to install all the clients...

 Keep Calm and Domino

  
And there they are, alive and healthy!

The brand new Designer:

The not so brand new Administrator:

Create a test team room database

Open from the browser to check if XPages works.
With Notes 9, we do not need to install the extension library, it is already built in!

Now stop grumbling that Notes has no future and start building the next killer application! :)