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In response to: Installing Servers using RDP

Thanks for that update Chris Im sure to forget when I use an SP3 machine for at least half an hour

We had a couple of annoying gotchas recently when installing Domino on VM servers using RDP, which I though I'd share in case you have to do it:

1. Not all RDP sessions are equal - you need to get the actual server console, so run "mstsc -console". This is important when running the installer as the java applet (accept licence dialog etc) only shows on the server console, not in a user session. If you have just run "mstsc" chances are you will see nothing except multiple instances of the setup exe as you keep clicking it. A further caveat is that even with -console we still had one box that we couldnt see the installer and had to use VMWare tools to see the actual console.

2. Temp dir - When RDP'd in "temp" was built as c:\documents & settings\user....\temp, for out Sametime 8.0.1. standard server the installer wouldn't start because the path was too long. So, make sure temp is set to something catchy like c:\temp.

'part from that it all worked great, happy installing.