IBM Sametime Proxy new cumulative hotfix available 9.0.0.1 - 3rd April 2014

IBM has released a new and important cumulative hotfix for Sametime Proxy with following fix and improvements:

- Added timeout to validation of push service connectivity to prevent login failure for mobile devices
- Improvements to cluster failover handling
- Improved error messages for file transfer in Internet Explorer
- Fixed A/V capability updates for mobile devices returning from background mode
- Fixed display of long strings in business card
- Fixed layout issue with quick find results and contact list in iNotes
- Improved logout handling when integrated with Sametime Meetings
- Fixed issue sending file transfer to a guest user when in a Sametime Meeting
- Fixed issue sending screen capture to an anonymous user
- Improved mobile web client integration
- Allow wildcards in quick find search
- Improvements for accessibility
- Security update for file transfer
- Performance improvements
- Security update to prevent a potential XSS issue
- Fixed UI issues with the Sametime contact list portlet in IBM WebSphere Portal

this fixes are also included because were on previous cumulative hotfix:

- Fixed potential XSS issue
- Fixed WebKit console reference error when running in debug mode
- Sametime Contact List Portlet updated to work with ST9
- Improved loading time for large buddy lists in IE8
- Fixed memory leak in UserInfoService
- Fixed issue with Meetings presence awareness after session expiry
- Fixed issue with wrong contact list / chat window showing on shared device
- Updated AutoAway extension description for Google Chrome 
- Improvements to web client failover
- Fixed "Bring Window To Front" behaviour
- Fixed contact list rendering issues
- Fixed emoticon display issue

I've just installed this on my enviroment and has solved issue between SmartCloud iNotes and Sametime Proxy on promise ( buddy list appear grey and Column in inbox where ST icons would be gets very wide )

In this technote you will find the original description and the download link from IBM Fixcentral
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How to configure Sametime 9 user photo from IBM Connections Profiles instead of ldap field

Working on Sametime 9 you have to configure user photo in every sametime servers and client.

Usually the userphoto is could be stored insite jpegPhoto LDAP field, or you could use another repository like IBM Connections profile photo. To check and configure the server behavoir, we have to use the Sametime System Console and open the relative server configuration.

Sametime Meeting Server
Out of the box Sametime Meeting Server is set to use  jpegPhoto field inside LDAP by the following 3 fields: userInfoImageAttr, userInfoRedirect, userInfoUrlTemplate

If we like to switch to IBM Connections Profile pic, we have to set true userInfoRedirect and set Connections URL inside userInfoUrlTemplate like this:

Sametime Proxy Server

Sametime Proxy use by default Sametime Business Card who is set inside Sametime Community server configuration where typically you have to use the jpefPhoto field

If we like to switch also here to IBM Connections Profile pic, we have to set the correct URL inside the Sametime Proxy configuration using Sametime System Console

You could retrieve the user's photo passing the correct attribute to photo.do , modifying the URL                eg  /photo.do?uid= or  /photo.do?uid=

If you like to pickup the profile pics from other repository like a webserver.. you could follow this steps on the community server:

• In the Sametime Community Server, find the UserInfoConfig.xml file.
• Open the file with a text editor, and add the following tag to the Details section:<Detail Id="PhotoURL" FieldName="PhotoURL" Type="text/plain"/>Copy
• Restart the Sametime Community Server.
• Upload user photos into a web server repository, so that users can access the photos using a URL. For example: http://iddirectory.mycompany.com/userphoto/mybuscardpic.jpg

Sametime Connect  - Sametime Embedded

IBM Sametime Connect client or Sametime Embedded Notes client are using the configuration of community server so they check the jpegPhoto field in LDAP directory..

If you don't like to insert (or you could not insert...) the photo inside LDAP , you have to install the Connections Plugin for Notes , or the plugin for  Sametime Connect, and you could find this on  Greenhouse catalog 

The Notes plugin is still up to date with last supported software and installing that you could have also the IBM Connections Business cart (and the user photo) on your client.

The Connections plugin for Sametime Connect is not updated like the Notes Plugin but as you could see on the catalog is still working with Sametime Connect 9 and IBM Connections 4.5

Sametime 9 proxy and Internet Explorer sound notification

I had issue with Sametime Proxy and sound notification and i had opened a PMR about that and this i had know that Sound Notification from IE is unsupported because Sametime Proxy 9 works in IE 8 mode where HTML 5 sound tag is unsupported !

Unfortunally sound notification isn't working  also from Firefox ESR 24.3 nor Chrome 33 (where it should be work) so i'm waiting news about this PMR to update this post with comment.

How to have 2 Sametime System Console on a virtual machine

Sametime 9 run on WAS 8.5 and direct upgrade from 8.5 is not allowed.
In case of upgrade we need to install a new environment and migrate config from older following this technote .

For some reasons (migrations, POC/TEST or whatever) could be usefull to have two Sametime System Console (8.5 and 9) installed on a single server at same time.
If you try to install the second console will fail during creation of console was profile because it will try to connect on DMGR only on default port so it try on the wrong one.

On IBM installation manager GUI we are not able to customize this parameter so we have to make a silent install.

Insite Sametime package we have some foldes :

inside that we have some respose file pre filled with default data

inside Isc.rsp we have to search and modify the Port of DMGR locatet at follow lines

<!--Port the Deployment Manager will run on. This should not be changed from the default of 8700 -->
<data key='user.com.ibm.lotus.sametime.systemconsoleserver.was.dmport' value='8700'/>
<!--Port the Deployment Manager will use for SOAP connections (the default is 8703) -->
<data key='user.com.ibm.lotus.sametime.systemconsoleserver.was.dm.soapport' value='8703'/>

After we have insert the correct port value we have to run the setup from command line

./IBMIM --launcher.ini silent-install.ini -input /tmp/swinst/SametimeSystemConsole/responseFiles/ISCT.rsp -log /tmp/sw-inst/ssc.log -acceptLicense

Your new SSC will be installed on diffent port than default (eg 9444) , but on next Sametime server you could be provide the correct value also from IM GUI (check the AboutThisProfile.txt to have the correct SSC  port for your environment)

Sametime Proxy 9 cumulative fix available

On last 10 days IBM has released on fix central  2 cumulative fix for Sametime Proxy 9.

• 9 December: This resolves a number of issues affecting the Sametime Web Client and Sametime Mobile Clients for iOS and Android
• 18 December: This improves failover for Sametime Mobile and includes Autoaway for web client users (IE and Chrome on Windows)

This fix are cumulative , so you could install only the last and they have to be installed on top of existing Sametime 9 installation (so they are not for fresh install)

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