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.

If you’re installing a Lotus Sametime server on Linux, be sure to check out the technote below with information on the most common errors and how to solve them:

Title: Errors installing Sametime server on Linux
Doc #: 1303973
URL: http://www.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?rs=899&uid=swg21303973

A IBM publicou recentemente o technote 1295167 – Domino and Sametime performance issues traced to Windows Server 2003 Scalable Networking Pack. Se você está observando problemas de performance com seus servidores Domino ou Sametime após aplicar o Service Pack 2 do Windows 2003, siga as instruções contidas no technote para solucionar esse problema:

The following will resolve the problem:

1. Disable SNP features in accordance with Microsoft’s instructions. Note that Registry edits may be required. See Microsoft article 912222 for details.

2. Ensure that the server’s NIC does not enable TCP off-loading (which may be labeled “TCO”, “TCP Chimney Offload,” or “TCP Checksum Offload.”)

3. The following Windows Registry Key can be Disabled to turn off the Chimney Offload feature:
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\Tcpip
\Parameters\EnableTCPChimney

via Notes from Lotus Support.

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.