| Welcome | This is the Support Content Highlights for IBM® Lotus® Sametime® for December 2010. This newsletter contains links to technical content that is frequently requested or identified by IBM Support as valuable during the time period covered by this notification. | ||
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Lotus VideoFest The Lotus Information Development team is hosting a virtual event aimed at encouraging customers, business partners, and IBMers to create informational videos and contribute them to the Lotus product wikis. Participate by posting videos, suggesting ideas for videos on IdeaJam, spreading the word using the new wiki share feature, and voting for the videos you like best. VideoFest starts October 26, 2010 and will culminate at Lotusphere when the top videos and contributors are highlighted. To find out more, visit the VideoFest landing page. | ||
| Recent favorites | Latest awareness components should be installed on 8.5.x Sametime Community server (#1455860) The Sametime server awareness component was enhanced in the 8.5 releases. For mixed version environments, you should replace the awareness component with the newest versions. "Take control" not working in the meeting room (#1454581) How you can troubleshoot "Take Control" issues when attending a meeting About IBM Lotus Sametime 8.5.1.1 (#1450776) IBM Lotus announces the availability of Sametime 8.5.1.1, a cumulative set of all fixes to help customers safely avoid known issues. SSC policy table shows question marks after upgrade to 8.5.1 (#1444980) After you upgrade your Sametime environment to version 8.5.1, the Sametime System Console (SSC) policy table shows multiple question marks in the Name column. After upgrading Sametime Server to 8.5.1 users using Notes 8.x Basic and older Notes clients cannot log in (#1443291) The default value for VP_SECURITY_LEVEL in 8.5.1 can prevent any clients older than Sametime 7.0 from logging in. (See also Connecting with older Community Servers To ensure that new and upgraded community servers can still connect to older community servers, update the VP_SECURITY_LEVEL parameter to 7000 in the sametime.ini file on the older servers as explained in this Information Center topic.) Domino server crashes on startup after upgrading Sametime server to 8.5 (#1420375) A Lotus Domino server crashes on STActivityProvider (STMSACTPRV) or STMeetingServer (STMTGSVR) on IBM i platform. A/V is lost in Sametime Online meeting if 3rd person joins (#1402633) When a third person joins an online Sametime meeting, audio and/or video will be lost until that person leaves the meeting. How to determine the Client Type that is connecting to a Sametime server (#1114318) IBM Lotus software supports a variety of ways to connect to a Sametime server. Is there a way to see which users are connecting using a custom built client, a Sametime client, or a Notes client? Can certain client types be blocked? | ||
| Recent wiki articles | Lotus Sametime Media Manager 8.5.1 cluster checklist and troubleshooting This article describes the steps that you need to perform in order to create a Media Manager 8.5.1 cluster setup and it also covers common issues encountered during this process. IBM Lotus Sametime Gateway 8.5.0/8.5.1 sizing guidelines This document provides sizing guidelines for solutions architects planning a deployment of IBM Lotus Sametime Gateway versions 8.5.08.5.1. We focus on the best practices when designing and configuring a large horizontal/vertical cluster, including topology options, session replication configuration, and network devices setup. Tuning the IBM Lotus Sametime Meeting server This article provides detailed steps on how to tune the IBM Lotus Sametime 8.5.1 Meeting server for maximum performance. Setting up an IBM Lotus Sametime 8.5 Meeting server for LiveNames integration The article provides step-by-step instructions on how to set up an IBM Lotus Sametime 8.5.1 Meeting server for integration with LiveNames. Configuring business card data retrieval when using Sametime and Notes When using Sametime in conjunction with Lotus Notes, Notes users can be configured such that business card data is retrieved using a specific search order, such as Sametime and then Notes, or using only a specific application, such as Notes. Lotus iNotes Sametime Proxy package The Lotus iNotes Sametime Proxy package, a technology preview, provides an update to the Sametime Proxy Server that is needed if you want to benefit from the Sametime Proxy Server Web 2.0 experience in Lotus iNotes. | ||
| Continual favorites | The Featured Documents for Lotus Sametime page contains the contents of this notification along with a list of Continual Favorites, documents that continually prove useful to Lotus Sametime administrators and users. | ||
| Training & Certification | IBM Software Services for Lotus Education offers IBM Lotus Sametime training solutions designed to support your technology investment. Training technical and end users on the latest features and functionality helps to increase productivity. Earning Professional Certification credentials also translates into increased productivity. Train and get certified for the value it brings to you and your organization. | ||
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Jeanmarie White | 17 December 2010 09:00:00 AM ET | | Comments (0)