Allowing logins from clients that are older than the specified minimal version

Configure the IBM® Sametime® Community Server to accept logins from users who are running older versions of the Sametime Connect and Sametime Notes-embedded clients.

Before you begin

This task is only necessary if you have already added the ST_MINIMAL_CLIENT_VERSION and ST_FORCE_LOGOUT_OLD_CLIENT_VERSION (or VP_SECURITY_ALLOW_USER) parameters to the sametime.ini file to block login attempts from clients older than a specified version as described in the topic, Specifying the minimum allowed client version.

About this task

Maintaining a flexible login policy is especially important in environments that include a large number of older Sametime clients. In such an environment, immediately enforcing a minimum client version can result in a high volume of help desk calls; best practice is to allow users several weeks to upgrade their clients before enforcing the minimum version.

If you have already configured the Community Server to enforce a minimum version of the client, you can avoid locking users out by setting the ST_FORCE_LOGOUT_OLD_CLIENT_VERSION parameter to 0 so that it does not log out older clients. After the deadline for upgrading passes, set the value to 1 to block logins from clients older than the minimum allowed version.

Procedure

Allow users with older clients to log in to the Community Server by completing the following steps on every Community Server in the deployment:
  1. Open the sametime.ini file in a text editor.
    By default, the file is located in the Sametime installation folder; for example, on Windows™: C:\Program Files\ibm\Domino\.
  2. In the [Config] section, locate the ST_FORCE_LOGOUT_OLD_CLIENT_VERSION parameter.
  3. Save and close the file.
  4. Restart the Community Server.