USER AND SERVER CONFIGURATION
Instant messaging is included in the Notes client installation, and is installed when you install the Notes client. During the Notes client configuration, the Lotus Notes Client Configuration dialog box displays the check box "Setup Instant Messaging" that allows you to specify whether to set up IM during Notes client setup. By default, the check box is selected to enable the setup of IM. You can deselect that check box to prevent IM from being set up for users.
Enabling Single Sign-On for instant messaging
As an administrator, you can include IM in single sign-on with Lotus Notes and push this feature down to users through dynamic configuration. To enable IM with single sign-on for users, use the NOTES.INI variable, IM_ENABLE_SSO=1. If this variable is set to 1, IM with single sign-on is enabled; if this variable is set to 0 (zero), IM with single sign-on is disabled and the user must enter their instant messaging password. There is also a setting on the User Preferences dialog box that users can set to designate whether they want to use the single sign-on feature, allowing then to log on once and still connect to multiple applications and servers.
For more information on the NOTES.INI variable, see IM_Enable_SSO.
Scriptable setup and instant messaging
If you are using scriptable setup to configure newly installed clients, IM can be included in the scriptable setup. There are several variables that you use to define the IM settings for users.
For more information about using scriptable setup with IM, see the topic Setting up Notes with a scriptable setup.
Name awareness in view columns and names fields
When Notes displays the online status for a name, it passes that name as displayed, to the Sametime server for lookup in the Sametime server's directory. Usually this is the Notes abbreviated format (for example, John Smith/Austin/Acme), although exceptions can be found in email because email names can be received from the Internet. In order for the name to be found in the directory that the Sametime server uses, the directory needs to support a lookup of a Notes abbreviated name. If the directory that the Sametime server uses is a Domino directory, this occurs by default. However, if the directory that the Sametime server uses is an LDAP directory, you may need to configure how the Sametime server performs a name lookup with the LDAP server. You may also need to ensure that the LDAP directory has a Notes abbreviated name attribute for each of its entries.
For information about using LDAP with a Sametime server, see the Lotus Sametime Administrator's Guide on the Lotus Developer Domain Web site. Reference the chapter "Using LDAP with the Sametime Server." In particular, you need to reference the "Configuring the LDAP Searching Setting" portion of the chapter.
Instant messaging and policies
Use the desktop policy settings document or the setup policy settings document to specify a Sametime server for users. Enter the server name in the Sametime server field. When pushed down to the users, this setting populates the field "Sametime server" in the users' Location documents. The user can, however, enter a different server name in that field on the Location document to override the setting from the policy document. The server specified in the Sametime server field is the server that the user will access for instant messaging. If no server name is entered in this field, the user is unable to log on to IM. The user would then have to review the settings on the Instant Messaging tab of their Location document, and make the necessary corrections.
For more information on the desktop and setup policy documents see Creating a desktop policy settings document and Creating a setup policy settings document. For more information on using policies, see the topic Organizational and explicit policies.
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