Sametime Connect Client end-user Help

IBM Lotus Sametime 7.5.1

Release Notes

After you add the organization name to the SSO document, and add the flag ST_ORG_NAME=<name of

organization of Web site that appears in Web SSO document>, then restart the server;

the user can then input the User ID and password to log in.

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Sametime Connect plug-ins cannot install on locked-down desktop

When the Sametime client downloads new or updated plug-ins during launch, or when the user manually installs plug-ins from an update site, the new plug-ins go into the plugins subdirectory of the directory where Sametime was installed. In some environments, the user does not have write access to the program directory, making it impossible for the Administrator to deploy new plug-ins or fixes to the user.

To remedy this situation, the Administrator can put plug-in updates in a location that the user will always have write access to, for example, the user's home directory.

Note that when you run the product installer or silent installer as an administrator, this causes the program directory to be made read-only for users who don't have administrator privileges, so this problem is likely to exist in any configuration where the administrator installs the client for non-administrator users.

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Sametime Connect Client end-user Help updates/corrections

The following list identifies corrections and other information related to the IBM Lotus Sametime Connect Client end-user Help:

zThe Help topic, "Accessibility features for IBM Lotus Sametime Connect," should include the recommendation to NOT turn on the tabbed chat window feature for multiple chats. This is because screen readers do not always correctly read the user interface for this feature. Please note that this feature is turned off, by default.

zThe Help topic, "Video calls" includes a note that this feature is not available on Linux. It is also not available on Macintosh.

zSome icons in the Help about managing, viewing, and participating in telephone conference calls and video calls are incorrect. Specifically, the Call, Call Options, Video, and Mute Video icons appear differently in the Help than in the product user interface.

zThe Help topic, "Automatically changing your availability status" describes how to specify on the Auto-Status Changes preferences page the situations in which your availability status automatically changes to another availability status. This topic does not mention that you can also automatically change your availability status based on events scheduled in your Lotus Notes or Microsoft Outlook calendar. To turn this feature on, select the Meetings scheduled in my calendar event on the Auto-Status Changes page and then click Calendar Service in the navigator. Then specify how often to check your calendar for scheduled events and, if you are using a Notes calendar, whether to use your Notes or Sametime password to check your Notes calendar.

zThe Help topics under "Plug-ins" describe how you can enable or disable and update plug-ins, including the ability to install plug-ins from a designated Web site. The feature to install plug-ins from a Web site is not available in this release. In addition, there are no plug-in preferences in this release, as described in the Help topic "Setting plug-in preferences."