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Optimizing Sametime's Name Lookup solution

This guide provides a high-level overview, background information, and best practice recommendations on Lotus Sametime's...

Best Practices for using LDAP with Lotus Sametime

This article contains an overview of LDAP components and how Lotus Sametime Community Server works with LDAP to provide ...

Lotus Sametime 8.5 Reference Cards

IBM® Lotus® Sametime® 8.5 meetings take place in reservationless meeting rooms. Meeting rooms open in either a Lotus Sam...

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Join the Lotus Technical Information and Education (LTIE) community for the first ever BlackBerry Jam!

William Wise | March 16, 2010 11:54:23 AM | Tags:

On Tuesday, March 30, the Lotus Information Development Center is hosting a "BlackBerry Jam" on several Lotus product Wikis. We invite all BlackBerry users in the LTIE community to share their tips, tricks, and best practices for using Lotus products on their beloved BlackBerries. Lotus and RIM ...

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Amanda J Bauman | March 9, 2010 5:20:27 PM | Tags:

Wiki Help describes basic tasks that you can accomplish in the wiki, such as creating and editing articles, basic editing tasks, subscribing to feeds, and providing feedback on the wiki. It also includes reference information on how to use the supported wiki markup for formatting.

Sametime 8.5 Ports and URLs using Cell Deployments

Tina McLeod | February 23, 2010 12:50:01 AM | Tags:

In Sametime 8.5, using a Cell Deployment, its common to install multiple Sametime application servers on the same machine. For each application which is installed on the same system, the unsecured port used is incremented +1 starting with 9080. For example if you were to install the System ...

Configuring and Troubleshooting iNotes with Sametime Awareness

Tina McLeod | February 21, 2010 5:53:55 PM | Tags:

  Initial Configuration: [ [http://www.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?rs=899&uid=swg21159197| Complete steps to configure Sametime integration with DWA 6.5.x ]] [[http://www.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?rs=899&uid=swg21221591 | Complete steps to configure Sametime integration with DWA 7.x]] ...

Lotus Sametime 8.5 Cluster

Alicia Casarrubios | February 18, 2010 10:49:39 AM | Tags:

Lotus Sametime 8.5 Cluster IBM® Lotus® Sametime® 8.5 consists of client and server applications that enable a community of users to collaborate through instant messaging and on-line meetings over an intranet or the Internet. Members of the Lotus Sametime community use collaborative activities such ...

New features of IBM Lotus Sametime 8.x chat logging and how to extend its SDK

Anbuchezhian Balakrishnan | February 9, 2010 2:48:19 PM | Tags:

Anbuchezhian Balakrishnan Software Engineer IBM Software Group Dublin Software Lab Mulhuddart, Dublin, Ireland February 2010 Summary: Learn all about the IBM® Lotus® Sametime® 8.0.x and 8.5 chat logging, its API, and how to extend the new features through a sample DLL developed based on the ...

Developer resources for Lotus Sametime Standard and Entry 8.5

William Wise | February 8, 2010 10:20:44 AM | Tags:

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Administrator resources for Lotus Sametime Standard and Entry 8.5

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Tips and tricks for deploying Lotus Sametime 8.5 servers

Jack Downing | January 27, 2010 9:53:44 AM | Tags:

Here are tips and tricks for installing and deploying Lotus Sametime 8.5 servers with the Sametime System Console. While creating plan for a product or installing the product, make sure all the servers should be reachable from each other. Add hosts entries in all servers if not present in DNS. ...

Plug-ins Deployment in Sametime Connect 8.x Standalone Client

Shabih Syed | January 25, 2010 4:15:32 PM | Tags:

Thinh M Hoang Software Engineer IBM® Lotus® Sametime® Support Team Shabih Syed Staff Software Engineer IBM® Lotus® Sametime® Support Team   Overview The IBM® Lotus® Sametime® (ST) Connect client can be updated with additional features during the client installation or at any time after the ...