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IBM Sametime 8.5.2 Administration Guide

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IBM Sametime 8.5.2 Administration Guide

Overview of this book

Sametime 8.5.2 delivers a state-of-the-art enterprise-ready instant messaging and meeting service. This Administrator's Guide navigates through the range of Sametime server components and features, providing you with the essential information required to install, administer and troubleshoot your Sametime 8.5.2 environment.The IBM Sametime 8.5.2 Administration Guide cuts through the complexity of architecting, installing, and administering all the moving parts of the latest version of Sametime. With this book, you will be able to make the necessary decisions when it comes to choosing which server components you need and how to install them to get the most performance and maintainability from the software. Starting with an overview of Sametime 8.5.2, you will then dive into each server component. You learn what each one does, why it might be needed in your environment, and what you need to have in place to run it. By the end, you’ll have Sametime running and configured properly for your particular situation.With flexibility comes complexity-- but not with this guide. You’ll learn how different architectures are possible and how to prepare properly for the installation of Sametime. You’ll learn how to install the servers in the right order so that you can maintain and expand your environment in the future. You’ll also find out how best to monitor your Sametime environment for issues, as well as how to effectively troubleshoot those problems so that you can quickly get Sametime running again.The IBM Sametime 8.5.2 Administration Guide is the perfect one-stop resource for learning important installation and configuration details quickly and easily.
Table of Contents (24 chapters)
IBM Sametime 8.5.2 Administration Guide
Credits
Foreword
About the Authors
Acknowledgement
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
WebSphere Application Server-Related Resources

About the Authors

Gabriella Davis lives in London, England and is Technical Director at The Turtle Partnership, an IBM Business Partner, for the past 16 years. Starting out as a cc: Mail administrator and a Lotus Agenda user, she has continued to work with mail systems and Lotus software and has stayed true to her admin roots ever since. She now focuses on designing and tuning infrastructures and integrating mail and collaboration products for small and large enterprises alike. Gabriella was recently named an IBM Lotus Collaboration Champion for Collaboration Solutions https://www.ibm.com/developerworks/mydeveloperworks/profiles/user/GabDavis. Gabriella's blog can be found at http://blog.turtleweb.com.

Marie L. Scott is the Director of Email Services at Virginia Commonwealth University in Richmond, Virginia. She holds a bachelor of science in biology from James Madison University and a certificate in information systems from Virginia Commonwealth University. Marie has held dual advanced certifications in Notes/Domino administration and development since version 4.0, and she is an IBM Certified Advanced Security Professional for Domino. Marie began working with Lotus Notes in 1996, and she has worked in networking, systems integration, and e-mail systems since 1987. Her primary interest is in Domino administration of complex environments. She has managed large e-mail migration projects including several cloud collaboration projects. Marie has been a speaker at conferences, including Lotusphere, featuring IBM/Lotus technologies. Marie has written for The View (Wellesley Information Services) and Marie and Tom Duff co-authored IBM Lotus Sametime 8 Essentials: A User's Guide (Packt Publishing, 2010). Marie was recently named an IBM Champion for Collaboration Solutions: https://www.ibm.com/developerworks/mydeveloperworks/profiles/user/MarieScott. Marie's blog can be found at: http://crashtestchix.com.

Thomas Duff (also known as "Duffbert") is a software developer focusing on Lotus collaboration technologies in Portland Oregon. He started working with Lotus Notes in 1996 in version R3 and has written and maintained hundreds of applications in large enterprises through the years. He also holds Lotus principal development certifications starting at version 4 and going up to version 8, as well as Microsoft and Java certifications. Tom is a prolific writer, both in various industry publications and at his website, Duffbert's Random Musings, at http://www.duffbert.com. He also is a frequent speaker at conferences and events focusing on Lotus technologies. Tom and Marie Scott coauthored IBM Lotus Sametime 8 Essentials: A User's Guide (Packt Publishing, 2010). You can find his profile at https://www.ibm.com/developerworks/mydeveloperworks/profiles/user/ThomasDuff.