Before you begin

To change a non-roaming user to a Domino server-based roaming user, you must have the following rights or privileges:

• At least Author access to the Domino Directory
• If the user has Author access, you must either have the UserModifier role, or be listed in the LocalAdmin field of the user's Person document
• Must be a database administrator on the roaming server. This is needed to create a folder on a remote server.

This personal subdirectory contains the roaming user's files. Be sure to observe the following guidelines when changing a user's roaming status:

• When changing a non-roaming user to a Domino server roaming user, always use the roaming tools available from People and Groups -> Tools -> People, as described in this procedure.
• When changing a Domino server roaming user to a non-roaming user, always use the roaming tools available from the People and Groups tab. See the topic Changing a roaming user to non-roaming in the related links.
• When upgrading to or downgrading from file server roaming, always use policies. To upgrade a non-roaming user to file server roaming, apply the policy to the user. To downgrade a file server roaming user to non-roaming, remove the user from the policy or from the group to which the policy applies. See the Policies section of this documentation for more information.

Note: Only those users who have a hierarchical ID (for example, CN=Jane Doe/OU=East/O=Renovations) can be upgraded to roaming users.

The roaming user feature requires the use of Dynamic Client Configuration (DCC). If you have used the NOTES.INI setting, DisableDynConfigClient=1 to disable DCC, remove that entry or comment out the entry in the NOTES.INI file and then restart the client. If DCC is disabled, the end-user is never prompted as to whether they want to upgrade to roaming status; therefore, the administration process does not generate the administration requests that are required to perform the upgrade to roaming status. This applies only to upgrades to roaming status; it does not apply to new roaming user setups.

To change a non-roaming user to roaming

Procedure

1. From the Domino Administrator, click the People & Groups tab.

2. Select one or more non-roaming user name(s).

3. From the Tools pane, click People -> Roaming.

Note: If you selected a mixed group of roaming and non-roaming users, the Mixed Roaming Profile dialog box appears and prompts you to select either roaming or non-roaming. Enable Assign roaming profiles to n selected users, where n is the number of non-roaming users selected.

Table 1. Roaming Field Values and Actions

Field	Action
Where should the user's roaming files be stored?	Choose one: Store on user's mail server -- Places the user's roaming files on the user's mail server. (The user's mail server was designated during user registration.) Roaming Server -- Click the button to specify the server on which you want to store the user's roaming files. Store user ID in personal address book -- (Optional) Places the user's ID in their own local contacts.
User's personal roaming folder	Choose one: Base folder -- Name of the folder in which to store the user's roaming files. By default the user's base folder is located in the Domino\data directory. For example, if you want the base folder to be called Roaming for all your roaming users, enter Roaming to create the Domino\data\Roaming directory. Sub-folder format -- The format to use when naming the roaming user's personal subfolder. By default this is the user's short name format. You can change this format if desired and you can optionally choose a separator character. A personal folder (subfolder) is created in the Base folder for each user you upgrade to roaming user. If folder exists - choose one: Skip person -- if a folder already exists. Generate folder name -- to create a new folder.
Client upgrade option - User should be prompted	Choose one: Click the check box, User should be prompted, if you want the user to be prompted as to whether to suppress the upgrade to a status of roaming user. By default, the user is prompted as to whether they want to suppress the upgrade to roaming status. Remove the check mark from the check box to prevent the display of a prompt asking the user whether they want to be upgraded from a non-roaming user status to a roaming user status. When this check box is not marked, the upgrade to roaming user status is done by default.
Client set-up options - User should be prompted	Choose one: Click the check box, User should be prompted, if you want the user to be prompted as to whether to suppress the upgrade to the client. By default, the user is prompted as to whether they want to suppress the upgrade. Remove the check mark from the check box to prevent the display of a prompt asking the user whether they want to upgrade the client. When this check box is not marked, the roaming user upgrade is done by default.
Roaming user client clean up options	Choose one: Do not cleanup -- No cleanup is performed on roaming user files. Cleanup every number days -- Specify a number between 0 and 365. Cleanup at Notes® shutdown -- Cleans up files when IBM Notes is shut down. Prompt user -- The user is prompted on exiting Notes as to whether they want to clean up their personal files. If the user chooses Yes, the data directory on that client workstation is deleted. If the user chooses No, they are prompted whether to be asked again on that client. If the user chooses No, they are not prompted again. If the user chooses Yes, they are prompted again when they exit Notes.
Perform updates in background	Processes requests in the background leaving the administration client available for other administration activities. Note: If you do not choose this option, the Administration client is busy until the Administration Process completes the upgrade.

A message displays the number of users successfully upgraded from non-roaming to roaming.

About this task

The procedure changes the user's status in their Person document from non-roaming to roaming. To verify that the change has been made:

Procedure

1. From the Domino Administrator, click the People & Groups tab.

2. Select the user you promoted to roaming.

3. Click Edit Person to open the user's Person document.

4. Click the Roaming tab. The User Can Roam field displays In Progress or Yes. The In Progress status displays until replication has occurred and all replicas of the user's files are updated.

Related concepts
Considerations for changing roaming user status
Understanding roaming users

Related tasks
Roadmap for registering and configuring Notes roaming users
Changing a roaming user to non-roaming

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