I really like the new Sametime Meeting Room Center UI, nice blue/green/grey screen.
Nevertheless our CI colors are more like purple and so I had to try to change the UI accordingly. Sametime Meeting Center is a pure Websphere application so customizing means find the app resource files and you are almost done.
Securing a connection to a LDAP server sounds pretty easy but doing this for a Sametime 8.5 deployment, especially the community server, is far away from easy.
Documentation (Infocenter, Sametime Wiki) is not very clear on this topic and has some conflicting infos.
These are the steps which worked for me.
Nachdem ich jetzt schon mehrere IBM Sametime Server auf 8.5.2 aktualisiert habe will ich meine ersten Erkenntnisse gerne mitteilen.
Generell war ich sehr erstaunt, dass der Upgrade Prozess auf allen Systemen von 8.5.1 auf 8.5.2 kein Problem war. Keine Fehlermeldungen, keine zerschossenen Installationen, nichts, einfach klick, klick, klick.
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There are many possibilities to change you Sametime Clients settings before and after a client rollout i.e. by changing/adding some lines to plugin_customization.ini (direct or indirect through Notes policies).
Unfortunately changing plugin_customization.ini through Notes policies is not really bulletproofed an often doesn’t work at all. So I searched for some alternatives and found following in Sametime Infocenter:
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