Requiring meeting passwords

You can require that all meeting rooms in IBM® Sametime® have passwords.

About this task

Meeting rooms are not required to have passwords by default. You can change this configuration setting so that meeting rooms are required to have passwords.

Procedure

  1. Log in to the Integrated Solutions Console.
  2. Click Sametime System Console > Sametime Servers > Sametime Meeting Servers.
  3. In the Meeting Servers list, click a server with the configuration that you want to change.
  4. Click the Server Configuration tab.
  5. Click Edit.
  6. Locate the meetingroomcenter.passwords configuration key.
    You can only edit the value; you cannot edit a configuration key name.
  7. Change the Configuration Value to one of the values specified in Table 1.
    Table 1. Configuration values
    Value Description
    0 No password required. This is the default value.
    1 Password required. The password must contain at least five characters.
    2 Strong password required. A strong password must contain eight or more characters, mixed uppercase and lowercase letters, at least one number, and at least one special character (for example: comma, exclamation point, or asterisk).

    Password character restrictions

    In addition to non-English characters, the following characters must not be included in passwords used by Sametime:

    : \ } ’ " & < >

  8. Click OK.

Results

This configuration change immediately takes effect.

What to do next

You optionally customize the configuration to allow meeting room owners and managers to bypass the password requirement. For information, see Customizing the Sametime Meeting Server configuration.