Setup guide
Chapter 1 - About this release ............................................................................. 1
New in this release..................................................................................................................... 1
New features in IBM Lotus Sametime Connect 7.5 Client................................................... 1
Contact list overview............................................................................................................ 2
Spell checker overview........................................................................................................ 3
Macintosh support is Extended Beta only ........................................................................... 3
New features in IBM Lotus Sametime 7.5 Meeting Room Client......................................... 3
Meeting and Client Help documentation.............................................................................. 4
Release notes: Updated information available on-line ........................................................ 4
Chapter 2 - Installation, migration, upgrade, and configuration
information ............................................................................................................ 5
Hardware requirements ............................................................................................................. 5
Hardware requirements for Sametime 7.5........................................................................... 5
Software requirements ............................................................................................................... 6
IBM Lotus Sametime Connect 7.5 client software requirements ......................................... 6
IBM Lotus Sametime 7.5 Meeting Room client requirements ............................................. 7
IBM Lotus Sametime 7.5 server software requirements...................................................... 7
Installation notes ........................................................................................................................ 8
Installing the IBM Lotus Sametime Connect 7.5 client ........................................................ 8
Additional installation steps for administrators .................................................................... 10
Install Linux libraries for Meeting Room Client (MRC)......................................................... 11
Installing Sametime Conversion Services with AIX, Solaris, i 5/OS.................................... 11
Installing the Lotus Sametime 7.5 Software Development Kit............................................. 12
Upgrade notes ........................................................................................................................... 12
Conversion Services upgrade required for AIX, Solaris, i 5/OS .......................................... 12
Maintaining SIP support after upgrading to ST 7.5.............................................................. 13
Migrating privacy data after upgrading server ..................................................................... 13
Configuration notes.................................................................................................................... 14
Launching and configuring the Sametime Connect 7.5 client ............................................. 14
Sametime 7.5 Reverse Proxy configuration ........................................................................ 15
Configuring Sametime to work behind WebSEAL reverse proxy ........................................ 15
Sametime Administrator needs to be in LDAP for policies to work ..................................... 17
Sametime Connect and HTTPS connections on port 443 or 563........................................ 17
Windows DEP process causes launch error ....................................................................... 22
Adjusting the logging level in sametime .properties ............................................................ 22
Clustered Sametime communities should have single host name ...................................... 23
Conversion Services on Windows Sametime servers ......................................................... 23
Multiple Community considerations..................................................................................... 24
New UNIX config values not always propagated by single restart ...................................... 24
Real-Time Collaboration Gateway replaces Sametime SIP Gateway ................................. 25
Sametime 7.5 does not provide a virus scanner ................................................................. 25
UIM Client file transfer overview.......................................................................................... 25
Voice chat and Network Address Translation (NAT)........................................................... 27
Chapter 3 - Known limitations, problems, and workarounds........................... 31
Limitations.................................................................................................................................. 31
Installation issues ................................................................................................................ 31
Sametime Connect for Browsers is not included with Sametime 7.5............................ 31
Telephony MSP can not be installed to Turkish OS ..................................................... 31
Use only ASCII characters for client installation path ................................................... 31