SnTT: Sametime 8.0.1 limitation hits home

For those of us who remotely support multiple clients, it's a comfort to our clients when they see our status icon is green when they log into their Sametime server.  Unfortunately, this is going to be an issue if your client has deployed the Entry version of Sametime.

One of the unspecified requirements of the Sametime Entry server is that it requires users that connect to it have that server set as their default Sametime community.  For user's at the client site, it's no big deal since they will probably only connect to their Sametime server.  But it really puts a crimp in those of us trying to add the server as yet another community we are a part of.  In fact, it's doesn't even show up as a choice in the Sametime Default Policy.

And before you very enterprising people try to circumvent things by changing the policy document via the Notes Client, know that I tried it already and it didn't work.  The Sametime server denied all connections once I set the valuer to 0.

I don't expect this issue to be resolved at any time by IBM since this is yet another of my issues that only seems to effect the .0001% of Notes users who are consultants.  Just like my issue with multiple location documents that use different IDs.....but that's a whole different story. 

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  • 1) Why not deploy the standard instead? - Chris Miller
    Created 6/12/2008 11:00:56 AM email | website

    Then add multiple communities ?

  • 2) Re: Why not deploy the standard instead? - Sean Burgess
    Created 6/12/2008 12:18:32 PM email | website

    @1 It was my understanding that entitlement with a Lotus Notes Client license only allows you to install Sametime Entry. Is that wrong?

  • 3) Well count me in that 0.0001% too - Stuart McIntyre
    Created 10/13/2008 5:02:14 AM email | website

    Sean, I feel your pain...

    I am also in that 0.0001% of users that are consultants, and I get hit by the loss of all Sametime settings when switching locations/IDs, the nonsense that is the version support for the extst service and also the Sametime issues when connecting to Sametime Entry servers. Whilst we may only be a small minority, we are also key influencers for a lot of our users.

    The issue with Sametime Entry is that it forces all users of the server to have this service as their main community, thus it hits all users, not just the ones that only have the Entry entitlement.

  • 4) You cant add more communities when using entry - Daniel Lindskog
    Created 12/9/2009 6:10:29 AM email |

    You can't add more communities as soon as you connect to the entry server as your default.

  • 5) SnTT: Sametime 8.0.1 limitation hits home - Peter Rossy
    Created 12/17/2010 9:39:54 AM email | website

    Great article, thank you for sharing.


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