Dan Silva

IBM just announced a new Open Mic Call on Installing and Configuring Lotus Sametime 8.0:

You are invited to participate in an IBM Open Microphone call with IBM Development & Support Engineers to discuss Install and Configuration of Lotus Sametime 8.0.  There is no charge for participating.  The topic and dial information for this call is:

Title:  Install and Configuration of Lotus Sametime
Date:  September 16
Time:  10:00 am EST (11:00 AM Brasilia, Brazil)
US Toll Free:   1-866-617-1526
US Toll:   1-210-795-0624
BRASIL, Gratuito: 0800-8911991
Passcode: 6896288

IBM/Lotus has identified an issue in Lotus Sametime Connect 8.0.1 Standard Client and Notes 8.0.2 Integrated Client (Gold/CCH1/CCH2) where an instante message intended for one recipient is actually received by another one:

This problem tends to occur after the server has been restarted. Users may experience the following symptoms:

• Instant messages are received by the wrong user.
• Some users might receive error code 0×80000005 when opening a chat with another user.

After users restart the Sametime Connect or Notes standard clients, the cross chat issue does not reoccur. 

Please be sure to check Technote 1375473 – Instant messages are received by an unintended recipient for additional information on obtaining the hotfix.

Nice report on how Continental AG acquired Siemens VDO and it’s decision to stay migrate the 40,000 Exchange users to IBM Lotus software:

“Our strategy is focused on minimizing software interdependencies and, likewise, taking control over license related costs,” says Dr. Bernhard Thomas, head of IT Infrastructure Strategy at Continental AG. “We didn’t see major differences between Lotus Notes and Microsoft Outlook with regard to client functionality, but the IBM software was more open and flexible and it also had lower infrastructure costs. That’s why we chose it.”

Lotus Quickr and Lotus Sametime were also deployed by the customer:

Continental also decided to deploy IBM Lotus Quickr and Sametime software as their collaboration and unified communications platform. The reasons for choosing IBM over Microsoft included lower licensing and operating costs as well as greater platform independence.

Link: CNN Money Marketwire – Automotive Manufacturer Continental Chooses IBM Lotus Software for Unified Messaging and Collaboration

Para referência posterior, alguns links sobre integração das soluções da IBM e Cisco em comunicações unificadas:

I’m doing a fresh new install of a Sametime 8 server environment on top of a new Domino 8 install. Server is installed as standard, out of the box settings, no server.id password is set. Start Domino 8 server, and it runs fine. However, the Sametime 8 installer swears the server.id has a password on it:

The install detected that the Domino server ID is password protected. This password is required to complete the Sametime server configuration. Enter the password, and choose Next to validate the password.

I’ve gone into the ID Properties to double check, no password is defined. Has anyone run into this before? Haven’t had an issue with Sametime 7.5.1.

UPDATE: Thanks to Chris Gambrell for the tip on the STSkipDominoPasswordCheck=true environment variable which did the trick.