Registering Google Desktop Enterprise to Lotus Notes

If your one of the unfortunately people that is forced to use Lotus Notes everyday, your going to love what Google Desktop Enterprise can do for you. Google Desktop Enterprise comes with a Lotus Notes plugin that allows for automatic and local indexing of your Notes mail. You might mention that you can setup indexes in Lotus Notes either on your local or server replicas. This is true but searching in Notes leaves much to be desired.

Normally you don't worry about the registration as the installer manages this for you. The problem comes when you have to reinstall notes and forget that you had Google Desktop installed. Not wanting to reindex all your mail again, how do you get that plugin back into Notes?

First locate your notes folder. For me its C:\Notes but it could also be C:\program files\Lotus Notes\. Now locate the notesgdsplugin.dll. You might have to snag this from a coworker if you can't find it anywhere on your computer. Copy this file into the root of your notes directory.

Now locate your notes.ini file and add the following under the [Notes] section. Change path_to_notes to match your installation directory. Restart Lotus Notes and Google Desktop should alert you that its now installed.

AddinMenus=notesgdsplugin.dll
GDSIndexOnIdle=0
GDSFilePath15=C:\path_to_notes\data\bookmark.nsf
GDSIndexEncrypted=1
GDSIndexDrafts=1
GDSIndexDiscussion=1
GDSFreqMinutes=1