IBM Connections Meetings and IBM Connections Chat, how change the default policy for AudioVideo , FileTransfer and History

In last days IBM has released Audio Video for IBM Connections Meeting cloud but is not enabled by default.
IBM Connections Chat cloud by default have History and file transfer enabled by deault.

If you like to change the default behavior of this 2 component of IBM services cloud offer you have to modify the default st policy using the integration server.

The first thing to do is naming the file correctly like the following example

customerID_departement_type_seqNum.ext

customerId:  Your customer ID is in the Company Account: Settings section of the Administration user interface.
departement Specifies the optional department ID for the user.
type The value must be ST.
seqNum   Specifies the sequence number that is used to order the processing of files; the value must be an integer value 0 - 9223372036854775807
ext Specifies the file extension that indicates the data encoding type. The value must be csv.


EG a correct name of the file could be   20001234_ST_1506180839.csv   where  20001234 is your customerID and  1506180839 is the seqNum.


For both chase , the first raw of the csv must be

emailAddress,action,policies

emailAddress could be wildcard * and the setting will be applied to all ORG or could be a single email address.

action could be assign policy or revokepolicy
polies must be the name of the policy with value

IBM Connections Meeting - Audio Video

In this case the name of the policy is av_policy and could have the following values

Policy (policy identifiers are not case-sensitive)	Description
av.1	Audio/video is disabled for meetings.
av.2	Audio/video is enabled for meetings.
av.3	Only audio is enabled for meetings.

the default of this settings is Audio disabled , video disabled , so if we like to enable all for all users of organization inside the CSV we can write the following 2 row
emailAddress,action,policies
*,assignpolicy,"av_policy:av.2"

IBM Connections Chat - File Transfer and chat history

By default both file transfer and chat history are enabled on IBM Connections chat cloud.

In this case the name of the policy is im_policy and could have the following value

Policy (policy identifiers are not case-sensitive)	Description
im.1	Chat history is disabled. File transfer is enabled for all client types.
im.2	Chat history is enabled. File transfer is disabled for all client types.
im.3	Chat history is disabled. File transfer is disabled for all client types.

For instance if we like to disable file tranfert to all organization but keep enabled the history we can upload a CSV with the following 2 raw

emailAddress,action,policies
*,assignpolicy,"im_policy:im.2"

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Some final conclusion for both case, you can upload csv with more raw , for example if you like to change a setting for all org except some others, so in this case the explicit policy associated to a user will have precedence to the generic policy.

For audio video the supported browser is Firefox, IE and Safari on Windows and MAC.

After any new pololicy you have to wait up to 24h to have the new policy up&running

Here you can find some references here IBM  technote and  here the  Knowledge center .

IBM Connections cloud guest account password policy

Some days ago we have found the guest password policy and i like to make a small post as remider :

The minimum password length is eight characters. Passwords must contain at least one non-alphabetic character and at least four alphabetic characters. Passwords cannot contain the following: three or more repeated characters, the space character, your first or last name, or your email address". Eg. Delta@123


The Password Policy is standard and cannot be customized. 

How to centrally deploy for users Sametime settings like Meeting Server Hostname or enable Sametime Advanced

Deploying a Sametime Community Server to customer is very easy because you can set the hostname and some other setting, using a Domino Policy with Desktop Setting,

Preferences -> Instant Messaging

If you have installed Sametime Meeting or Sametime Adanced you can also set all settings through Desktop setting but is a little bit less easy than Community.
We have to go inside the Desktop Setting and go to

Custom Settings -> Managed Settings

and set the parameters we need

These are the field to fill:

• Item                
• Value             
• Plug-in name

and  you can also choose if that parameter must be to deployed with  Enforce o as Set Initial Value.

e.g.

To Enable Sametime Advanced on Sametime Client (starting from 8.5.2) you have to set

• Item   ---> enableAdvanced
• Value ---> true
• Plug-in name com.ibm.collaboration.realtime

And at next Policy refresh you will see the Sametime Advanced panel in sidebar.

Some functionality require more "managed setting" to be applied, like Sametime Meeting server because we have to provide 3 settings to the client (host , port and protocol)

To set the Sametime Meeting Server :

• Item   --->      meetingServerHostName        ServerPort                               useHTTPS
• Value --->     meeting.contoso.com                     443                                     true
• Plugin --->     for all 3 com.ibm.rtc.meetings.shelf

At next Notes policy refresh you will have a meeting server named meeting.contoso.com with https on tcp port 443 deployed.

If you like to have client already logged-in you have to tell also if client have to use Sametime Community Credential (by default this value is true) ,but you have also to tell to Sametime Meeting client the Community hostname using the following parameter

• Item     --->   communityServerName
• Value   --->   community.contoso.com
• Plugin   --->   com.ibm.rtc.meetings.shelf

This is only an example of Sametime settings you can manage from Domino Policy and Desktop Setting, here on official Sametime Wiki you can find the complete list of all setting we can use (from livetext to widget, sound and so on..) . Very useful !