Sametime in Notes 8, and access to IBM Sametime Community

For those of you who are not aware, IBM has their Sametime environment open to the public, if you want to connect Chris Pepin has detailed instructions on how to set up your client.  I have been logging in to the IBM Community for well over a year now, and it saves me quite a bit of phone tag and time in my daily dealings with IBM.  Sometime around Notes 8 Beta 3 the Sametime client ID in Notes 8 was changed preventing it from logging in to the IBM Sametime community, since they limit logins to specific client ID’s.  So for the last 6 months, I have been using Sametime in Notes 8 to connect with in my company, but still had to launch the stand alone 7.5.1 client to connect to IBM.  In August when I saw Chris Pepin, I asked him when it would be fixed, he promised to look in to it.  In September when I saw Chris the first thing he said to me was “October 13th”.  Well true to his word, I can now log in to the IBM Community with the Sametime client integrated in Notes 8. Thanks Chris!

One Response to Sametime in Notes 8, and access to IBM Sametime Community
  1. Chris Miller
    October 17, 2007 | 12:12 pm

    we only wish it were true. Numerous people still cannot access the site