Workplace Services Express 2.6 base install overview
Tags :Workplace Services Express Lotus Workplace
We had a customer request this for testing purposes on their test server so we wiped the and reinstalled the OS. We went with Windows 2000 since it is a test box to save some 2003 licenses.
Download:
- You need 4 files (or the cd's). You can get the part numbers on-line but it is almost 3GB worth to download
- Put them all in a single directory and unpack them there. It will create all the necessary folders and structure if you keep using the same exact path for each unpack. This in turn makes another 3GB of unpacked files on the server too
Install:
- There is a file called launchpad.exe that brings up some Java and a GUI. Unfortunately that damn thing would never come up, ate CPU like a Survivor winner and hung with an ugly grey box
- I opened the install guide and went with the command line install instead
- The old 2.5 version seemed to honestly take between 30-45 minutes
- This one was the following:
- Started GUI at 9:22am
- Switched to command line at 9:26am
- Started install at 9:27am
- Install completed at 11:40am
So that means it took 2 hours as compared to the previous 30-45 minutes.
With that being said, it still worked fine and installed flawlessly past that point. The page loads are always horrendously slow the first time. This was no exception and the install guide even tells you to do so.
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On Thursday, July 27th, 2006 by Chris Miller
