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Welcome to the HCL Sametime® 11.6 administration documentation
Administering
This section provides information on administering HCL Sametime 11.6 environments.
Changing user names
When you change user or group names in the directory, the change is not reflected in HCL® Sametime Community Server databases. In order to synchronize the directory names with the names in the Community Server databases, you must run the name conversion utility.
Running the name conversion utility
To run a name change task, start the name conversion utility. The name conversion utility uses the CSV file to update user contact and privacy lists with the latest directory changes.

Welcome to the HCL Sametime® 11.6 administration documentation
- Accessibility features for Sametime
  Accessibility features help users who have a disability, such as restricted mobility or limited vision, to use information technology products successfully. HCL® strives to provide products with usable access for everyone.
- What's new in HCL Sametime
  This section describes what's new in HCL Sametime® 11.6 and Sametime® Meetings 11.6.
- Checklist to deploy Sametime
  This section provides information on reviewing the checklist to deploy the Sametime clients.
- Encryption usage in Sametime
  HCL® Sametime® uses several types of encryption to protect data.
- Planning
  This section describes the system requirements and server configurations needed for HCL Sametime 11.6.
- Installing
  This section provides information on installing and configuring the servers for HCL Sametime 11.6.
- Configuring
  This section provides information on configuring the servers for HCL Sametime 11.6.
- Securing
  This section provides information on securing HCL Sametime 11.6 environments.
- Administering
  This section provides information on administering HCL Sametime 11.6 environments.
  - Managing Sametime clients
    This section provides information on managing HCL Sametime clients.
  - Starting and stopping servers
    This section provides information on starting and stopping HCL Sametime 11.6 servers.
  - Managing policies
    Sametime policies allows administrators to control user access to features.
  - Configuration files
    There are a number of configuration files that a backup copy should be retained after the server configuration is complete.
  - Adding additional Sametime administrators
    Sametime Community server is installed on top of a Domino server. There are some administration and installation tasks that must be performed using the HCL Notes Client or HCL Notes Administrator client.
  - Enabling multi-tenancy
    Multi-tenancy allows multiple organizations to be part of the HCL Sametime® community. With multi-tenancy, Sametime users can chat, add users and groups to contact lists, and have awareness of users in their organization or in other organizations that are configured to be visible to them.
  - MongoDB
    This section provides information relating to administering MongoDB.
  - Disabling persistent chat and MongoDB requirements
    HCL Sametime 11.6 deploys with persistent chat enabled which requires MongoDB. It is possible to remove the MongoDB requirement if persistent chat and chat logging is disabled.
  - Managing Sametime Meetings
    This topic explains the features you can enable or disable for meetings. Currently, the settings that you can change are global settings that apply to the entire server. User policies cannot control the settings.
  - Changing user names
    When you change user or group names in the directory, the change is not reflected in HCL® Sametime Community Server databases. In order to synchronize the directory names with the names in the Community Server databases, you must run the name conversion utility.
    - Preparing for changing names
      Before you can run the name conversion utility, you need to perform the following tasks:
    - Running the name conversion utility
      To run a name change task, start the name conversion utility. The name conversion utility uses the CSV file to update user contact and privacy lists with the latest directory changes.
      - Running the name conversion utility on Windows®
        Follow these steps to run the name conversion utility on Microsoft® Windows®.
      - Running the name conversion utility on Linux™
        Follow these instructions to run the name conversion utility on HCL® Linux™ operating systems.
      - Gathering name conversion utility diagnostic data
        Collect information for HCL® Support to investigate the HCL Sametime name conversion utility.
      - Name Change task replication
        When you create a name change task, the task is saved in a file called stnamechange.nsf, and this file is replicated to all home HCL® Sametime Community Servers so that updates can be made to each server's vpuserinfo.nsf database. The file vpuserinfo.nsf is the Sametime user information database that contains contact lists and privacy lists.
      - Name Change task status
        This topic describes the status of the name change tasks, how to view tasks in progress, and how to delete a name change task.
      - Name Change summary report
        After you run the name conversion utility, review the summary report to verify successful name changes and find any that were unsuccessful.
- Uninstalling Sametime
  In the event that Sametime must be uninstalled, follow these steps to uninstall the Community, Proxy, and Meetings servers.
- Troubleshooting
  Troubleshooting and Support
- Migrating and Upgrading
  This section provides information on migrating and upgrading from an earlier Sametime release.
- Notices

Running the name conversion utility

To run a name change task, start the name conversion utility. The name conversion utility uses the CSV file to update user contact and privacy lists with the latest directory changes.

Before you begin

Before you begin, create a comma-separated value file with name changes, and then create a name change task. HCL® recommends running the name conversion utility at off-peak hours, and stopping the Domino server before you begin.

About this task

Starting the name conversion utility starts the name change task. You can create many tasks, but the name change conversion utility executes only one task at a time. You can have only one name change task scheduled or in progress. If a name change task is scheduled or in progress, you cannot create another name change task until the existing name change task completes.

It is not necessary to run the name change conversion utility on every HCL® Sametime Community Server in a cluster. For clusters, the task should run once on one server and then replicate to other servers in the cluster.

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