Preconfiguring client preferences for a single Sametime Meeting Server

Many meeting-related preferences can be set automatically using the Expeditor managed settings framework. This topic describes what you must set up in advance to preconfigure client preferences for a single Sametime® Meeting Server.

About this task

Add these client preferences to automatically update client preferences with the Expeditor managed settings framework.

Procedure

Follow these steps to add the required entries for configuring managed preferences. You can set the preferences from the Notes® configuration documents or in a managed-settings.xml file.

  1. Add these required entries:
    • com.ibm.rtc.meetings.shelf/serverName

      Use the fully qualified domain name of the Meeting Server.

    • com.ibm.rtc.meetings.shelf/connectionType

      The default of 0 uses a direct connection. Specify 1 to use a reverse proxy server.

    • com.ibm.rtc.meetings.shelf/serverPort

      Specify the port used to connect to the Meeting Server.

    • com.ibm.rtc.meetings.shelf/useHTTP or com.ibm.rtc.meetings.shelf/useHTTPS
      • com.ibm.rtc.meetings.shelf/useHTTP: Set this to true to force the client to use HTTP when connecting to the Meeting Server.
      • com.ibm.rtc.meetings.shelf/useHTTPS: Set this to true to force the client to use HTTPS (a secure connection) when connecting to the Meeting Server.
  2. Specify whether users can re-use the credentials used to log into a Community Server or if they must use custom credentials.
    1. To set up single sign-on, where the client re-uses the credentials from a CommunityServer to log in to a Meeting Server without being challenged, set the following keys:
      • com.ibm.rtc.meetings.shelf/useCommunityCredentials=true
      • com.ibm.rtc.meetings.shelf/communityServerName=server_namewhere server_name matches the community server name that is configured in the client.
      • com.ibm.rtc.meetings.shelf/loginByToken=true

        If the Community Server and Meeting Server are configured in the same single sign-on domain, setting this key to true forces the meeting client to log in with the LTPA token from the Community Server. If the Meeting Server is configured to re-use the Community Server credentials, the client automatically attempts to log in with a user name and LTPA token before falling back to a user name and password. Note that clients running releases earlier than 8.5.1 can also use an LTPA token but do not attempt to do so automatically and have no fallback mechanism. This value cannot be applied to specific Meeting Servers. Because it is a global setting for all servers, do not use this value if you have these older clients and some Community Servers and Meetings Servers that are not configured for single sign-on.

      For more information, see Preparing servers running on WebSphere® Application Server for single sign-on.

    2. To set the client to use custom credentials when logging in to a Meeting Server, set the following key:

      com.ibm.rtc.meetings.shelf/useCustomCredentials=true

  3. (Optional) To prevent users from modifying their Meeting Server lists, set the following keys:
    • com.ibm.rtc.meetings.shelf/canRemoveServer

      Setting this key to false prevents user from removing Meeting Servers from the list.

    • com.ibm.rtc.meetings.shelf/canAddOtherServers
    • Setting this key to false prevents users from adding Meeting Servers to the list.