Enabling screen sharing using a browser plugin on Windows

IBM Sametime® meeting users can host screen-sharing sessions in a browser running on Microsoft Windows. In new installations, beginning with the Sametime 9 Cumulative Refresh, the default is to use the browser plugin for screen sharing during Sametime meetings. In previous releases of Sametime, the default is to enable screen sharing using the Java applet. Use this procedure to enable screen sharing for Sametime meetings on Windows using a browser plugin instead of the Java applet.

About this task

To remove the Java dependency and enable Sametime clients to use a browser plugin for screen sharing, complete this procedure to set the appshare.plugin.windows.enabled setting to true. This procedure applies to earlier releases of Sametime where the appshare.plugin.windows.enabled setting is set to false by default.

Procedure

  1. Log in to the Sametime System Console as the administrator.
  2. Click Sametime System Console > Sametime Servers > Sametime Meeting Servers.
  3. In the Meeting Servers table, select the Sametime Meeting Server on which you want to enable this feature.
  4. On the Server Configuration page, locate the custom configuration keys table.
  5. In the custom configuration keys table, click New.
  6. Add a custom configuration key using the following values:
    • Configuration key: appshare.plugin.windows.enabled
    • Configuration value: true
  7. Click OK to save the new configuration key.

    Repeat this process on each Sametime Meeting Server for which you want to enable this feature.