Planning for the Sametime Connect or Embedded client
Review the following considerations before deploying the IBM® Sametime® Connect client or the Sametime Embedded client to your users.
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- Internet passwords required
Internet passwords are required to log on to IBM Sametime Connect or Embedded clients when single sign-on is not configured. Each user must have an Internet password in their Person Document in the Domino® Directory or stored in the LDAP directory. You might need to inform users of their Internet passwords.
- Password character restrictions
In addition to non-English characters, the following characters must not be included in passwords used by Sametime:
: \ } ’ " &
- IPv6 addressing
Supporting the IPv6 protocol in a Sametime deployment requires you to upgrade Sametime clients to release 8.5 or later to ensure they can communicate with Sametime servers that use IPv6 addresses.
If you support only IPv6 addressing, older clients will not generate error messages but will appear "broken" to users because they cannot communicate with the IPv6–enabled servers.
If you support both IPv4 and IPv6 addressing, all Sametime clients can communicate with the IPv6–enabled servers; just be sure to configure the servers to listen for IPv4–format addresses as well as IPv6–format addresses.
- Spell checker dictionaries
The U.S. English spell check dictionary is installed automatically, but you can install spell checker dictionaries for additional languages. The additional dictionaries are provided as an update site on the client CD and downloaded image in the optional-components/optional-components-update.zip file. See Distributing updates and optional features to clients.