We are installing a Lotus Foundations Branch Office appliance at one of our customers. Lotus Foundations Branch Office is used in combination with a Lotus Domino Enterprise server. All configuration happens on the Enterprise server and is then replicated to the Foundations server.
For example: users are registrated on the Enterprise server, with the Foundations server as their mailserver.
Some of the users on the Foundations server had to be upgraded to roaming users (Notes roaming). It took me quite a while before this actually worked. When I upgraded an existing user on the Enterprise server to roaming, it worked within ten minutes. But when I did the same for a user on the Foundations server, it always ended up in tears (aka: not working).
After some searching and digging on the web, I finally found a solution. For some reason, roaming just wouldn’t work if the files were on the Foundations server itself. When I put them on the Enterprise server, everything seemed to work. Putting the roaming files on the Enterprise server will ofcourse cause a longer startup time if the user logs on for the first time, as the Enterprise server is probably off-site.
So in short:
You have to upgrade the user to roaming on the Enterprise server, select the Enterprise server as the roaming server, and then replicate this to the Foundations server (that, in combination with a few “tell adminp process new” commands).
By default, if you upgrade a user to roaming, it selects the mailserver of that user as the roaming server. So be sure to change this for a user on Foundations to the Enterprise server!
