- Adding corporate branding to meeting pages
You can customize meetings to reflect your company's branding and visual presence.
- Adding virtual backgrounds to the global library
By default, you can customize your meetings with virtual backgrounds and themes. As an administrator, you can choose which backgrounds and themes are available to all users.
- Configuring the recorder on Docker and Kubernetes instances
Each recorder instance requires access to a unique ALSA loop-back device on the host. To accomplish this, you must run a series of commands on any node that hosts a recorder pod.
- Configuring alternate STUN servers
Sametime Meetings uses public Google STUN servers by default. To use different STUN servers, you must complete this procedure before installing Sametime Meetings.
- Setting up business cards
You can configure the Sametime server so that business card information about an individual displays when a user hovers over a name in a chat window or a contact list. Business card information also displays at the top of an active chat window.
- Configuring LDAP
Sametime supports LDAP directory servers as the user repository.
- Updating the time-to-live index for persistent chat
The time-to-live (TTL) setting defines how long the chat history is stored in the database. The default value is 90 days. However, administrators can update the value based on the organization's preferred setting.
- Managing secrets in Kubernetes
Sensitive information such as passwords, service account names, certificates, and other confidential data needed by Sametime pods are stored in secrets. In addition to helm charts and configuration map, the Sametime configuration is also derived from secrets.
- Applying configuration changes in Docker
Configuration files contain environment variables that can be changed and applied to the Sametime server.
- Applying configuration changes in Kubernetes
Configuration files contain environment variables that can be changed and applied to the Sametime server.
- Chat
This section contains Chat configuration considerations.
- Meetings
This section will discuss Meetings configuration steps specific to the HCL Sametime Meetings server.
- Integrating with other applications
Integration with an application such as Verse prior to Sametime 12.0 requires the legacy web-client interface. Beginning in Sametime 12.0 the legacy web-client is not enabled by default, but can enabled when needed for integration with other products.