Lotus Sametime can even integrate into your Microsoft Office, Microsoft Outlook, and Microsoft SharePoint applications. When names appear in those applications, you can click on the presence icons to start chats and instant meetings. You install Sametime Microsoft Office Integration as a plug-in to your Sametime Connect client. We're not going to discuss the installation in detail, but this link will provide you with an overview: http://publib.boulder.ibm.com/infocenter/sametime/v8r0/index.jsp?topic=/com.ibm.help.sametime.802.doc/Standard/st_inst_optionalfeatures_t.html. If you're not sure you have the Microsoft Office Integration plug-in installed, contact your Sametime administrator for assistance.
When Microsoft Office Integration is installed, if you're using Microsoft Outlook, for example, you see a Sametime toolbar added to your Outlook toolbar. It provides you with options to:
Open your Sametime contact list
Search for your Sametime contacts and the Sametime address book
Start a Sametime chat, telephone call, video call, or voice chat, with a person in your contact list, or the person in your e-mail list, if they are accessible through Sametime
Begin a Sametime Meeting
This figure shows what your Microsoft Outlook toolbar might look like after the plugin has been installed, and you've logged in through the Sametime Connect client:
Notice that it also displays your online status, just as the Sametime Connect client or Sametime Embedded client does.
The toolbar also works from Outlook Calendar. As with other Sametime clients, you can modify your online status:
Sametime integration also works with other Microsoft Office products. For example, Sametime adds a separate toolbar command to the Add-Ins tab of Microsoft Word.
As with other Sametime products, if you need help while using Sametime there is generally a help button. In this case if you click the question mark, the help dialog relating to Sametime and Microsoft Office integration will display.
This link gives you an overview of the different types of integration you can expect between Sametime and Microsoft: http://www-01.ibm.com/software/lotus /products/sametime/appintegration.html