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I should have expected it.

Sametime 7.5 dropped on Friday the 18th, as reported by Ed Brill and others. I downloaded the server, client and dev kit this morning and will try to get a test server up this week. Started the process of getting the client into the software testing/approval cycle.

Looks like the first test accounts started getting issued for testing NCES' Sametime installation while I was gone too. I pre-registerest for the testing and they're rolling the accounts in small groups, and I didn't get one on the first set.

I'm looking forward to a couple different things with the NCES Sametime setup. With the 7.5 client, I should be able to connect to my local community and the DISA one at the same time. I'm also hoping that there will be the possibility of connecting existing Sametime communities to the main NCES community. Some orgs in the DoD prefer to own their services, so something like registering their users with NCES and only using that might not be doable, but if they can connect the Communities the the collaboration is still there without making the local IA guys too nervous.

Technorati Tags: Lotus, Sametime, Travel

Adam Gartenberg posted last Saturday on his blog that they were going to update the Sametime 7.5 demo site with beta 4 code this week. He also mentioned that they were pulling the Mac version of the client from the initial release. Bummer, but if it isn't ready, it isn't ready and I'd rather see IBM delay something than pug it out half-baked. I went to check the site this morning to see if they updated it yet and they did. Unfortunately, they seem to have removed the Mac client from the beta 4 code. That bites. Would have hoped that they'd want to keep testing the Mac client while it's being delayed. But then again the beta probably needs to be tested without the links to the Mac client too. Oh well. So much for ST at home for me. I'll work harder on the beta update when they bring the Mac client back, I promise! :)

Technorati Tags: Domino, Lotus, Technology

I was skimming through technotes on the Lotus Support site and came across a technote (193337) that I hadn't noticed before, and since it's Thursday I figured I'd share because I haven't seen it anywhere else:

Does Sametime scan files for transferred viruses?

Without posting the whole content of the technote, what it's saying is that this functionality will be in Sametime 7.5. When I deployed Sametime in my current environment, lacking the ability to scan files in transit is the reason why I wasn't allowed to enable the file transfer functionality.

This feature is going to be as big for me as the new pretty UI on the client. Thank you IBM!

Technorati Tags: Domino, Lotus, Show and Tell Thursday, Software, Technology

I'll put my thoughts on Show and Tell Thursday in a different post. Look for it (or not) soon. :P Here's an admin thing that popped up again recently for someone I know. It took me a while to remember what the fix was and it takes some digging in Notes.net or Google to find it so it sounded to me like a good SnTT post. This is for Sametime 6.5.1 on Windows. I can't vouch for other platforms. I haven't done this in R7 yet so I don't know if it has the same issue. If you do a lot of partitioned Domino servers like I do, you tend to try to keep all of your server-specific files in the server's data directory. Even servers that aren't partitioned I always put the notes.ini and the server.id in the data directory. It's one less step I need to do later if I need to migrate the server into a partitioned configuration. There's a problem when you do this with Sametime 6.5.1 servers on the install. You get throught the first part of the installation OK, but the second section of the install when it runs stsetup.exe, after you choose your directory type, the installer comes back with a "File does not exist" error. There are probably several conditions that can cause stsetup to throw this error, but in the environments I deal with, it's always been the same thing: stsetup is looking for notes.ini and the server id file in the program directory instead of the data directory. The fix is to just copy those files into the program directory before the Sametime install and then copy them back to the data directory when it's done.

Technorati Tags: Domino, Lotus, Show and Tell Thursday, Software, Technology