Setting auto-status change preferences in Sametime via policy
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Have you wanted to set your Sametime Connect client, embedded or stand-alone, auto-status change preferences via a policy? Well you can not. This is a shortcoming in Sametime policies.
For Sametime Connect clients you can use the Sametime policies to set and enforce a few preferences. In the embedded Sametime client inside of IBM Notes you also rely heavily on the Notes client preferences dialog.
While I can manually go in and set these on my IBM Notes client, there is no Desktop policy setting nor Sametime policy that allows me to control this. IBM documentation covers the variables and attribute for auto-status change preferences but that is all behind the scenes. The location os such preferences are also notes in the IBM Sametime wiki, but again no easy way to manage and manipulate.
In talking with some awesome Sametime partners looking for something I missed, I learned just the opposite. IBM has some preferences that allow users to set their own destiny, but no administrative control or option.
Do you have issues with people appearing online when they are away? Do you wish you could control setting and preferences in IBM Sametime like this?
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On Friday, June 7th, 2013 by Chris Miller
