According to a technote on www.lotus.com/support (“What Notes.ini values are stored and replicated in the Personal Address Book for a Roaming User?”) not all settings roam – I paid special mention to the fact that personal notes.ini settings, that is those that start with $-sign, doesn’t.
I called Lotus Support to verify that this is in fact correct since it could be considered a real issue since many applications use these personal notes.ini settings as part of the application. Not having these settings roam could really impact application perception by users. Here is the response I got from Lotus Support:
"PMR xxxxx,xxx,xxx is about the notes.ini parameter question an[d] the answer is no, but there is an enhancement request for this. Unfortunately this will not be fixed in R6. Would you like me to add your name to the list of customers who would like this to be fixed in R7?"
So I’m afraid the technote is correct. A SPR (Software Problem Report) for this was opened against R6 (SPR# DPAT4WSLVK) but it was decided that it wouldn’t be considered for the R6 codestream. I opened a SPR for the same issue against the R7 codestream. For those who want to add their voice to the SPR number is DPAT4WSLVK.