Managing community services

Community services settings support all online presence (or awareness), instant messaging, and chat features at a server-wide level. These settings supersede any feature settings that you set at the policy level for users or groups. Community services settings carry a greater weight.

  • Managing general community services
    The general community services settings control the interaction of the IBM Sametime Community Server with an LDAP directory and the maximum number of users allowed on the server.
  • Configuring offline messaging
    Use Community Server Global Settings to enable the offline messaging service and define default settings for all community servers. You can also decide how many offline messages to save for each user and the length of time to save delivered and undelivered offline messages. After you enable the service, you must also set the Instant Messaging policy called "Allow users to send offline messages." The policy allows specific users to send messages to offline users and those whose status is "Do not disturb."
  • Saving transcripts of chats and meetings
    You can enable the Sametime Community Server to save transcripts from two-way and multiple-user chats and from chats in meetings. Two-way chats are managed with the server’s native Chat Logging application. Multiple-user chats and meeting chats are managed with the Places server application.
  • Defining offline message settings for individual Community Servers
    Edit the sametime.ini file on a Sametime Community Server to change offline message settings that define the deletion task intervals, the server locale, and debugging levels.
  • Allowing users to transfer files to each other
    Community Services allow users to transfer files to each other over the network while using Sametime Connect Client.
  • Allowing users to send announcements
    Community Services allows users to send unencrypted announcements to others who are online in the Sametime Community.
Parent topic: Administering a Sametime Community Server