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Category Sametime Sharepoint
I've had a few blog posts recently that have bitched a bit about Sametime, and to be honest I think with good reason, lately I have wondered what kind of QA process IBM has been putting Sametime releases through, do they have one? So I was pleasantly surprised the other day when I setup something for a customer and low and behold, it worked first time, and as advertised (rare days in the recent release of Sametime). The feature in question, Sametime awareness within Microsoft Sharepoint. The customer in question is a pure Microsoft shop, no Notes, no Domino (apart from the Sametime server), definitely no WebSphere, they're all Outlook, they're all Office, they're all Sharepoint, not an IBM shop at all. So it's always good to see Sametime being installed at a site like this.
Whilst the Sametime integration install involves editing a few JavaScript files, it takes all of about 5 minutes, and after a Sharepoint restart, it just works. So credit where credits due, this feature worked, and worked first time. Sadly, the customer is planning on upgrading to SharePoint 2010 in about a month, and there isn't yet Sametime Awareness for Sharepoint 2010, so Sametime awareness in Sharepoint may be a short lived feature, until IBM issues an update..
I've had a few blog posts recently that have bitched a bit about Sametime, and to be honest I think with good reason, lately I have wondered what kind of QA process IBM has been putting Sametime releases through, do they have one? So I was pleasantly surprised the other day when I setup something for a customer and low and behold, it worked first time, and as advertised (rare days in the recent release of Sametime). The feature in question, Sametime awareness within Microsoft Sharepoint. The customer in question is a pure Microsoft shop, no Notes, no Domino (apart from the Sametime server), definitely no WebSphere, they're all Outlook, they're all Office, they're all Sharepoint, not an IBM shop at all. So it's always good to see Sametime being installed at a site like this.
Whilst the Sametime integration install involves editing a few JavaScript files, it takes all of about 5 minutes, and after a Sharepoint restart, it just works. So credit where credits due, this feature worked, and worked first time. Sadly, the customer is planning on upgrading to SharePoint 2010 in about a month, and there isn't yet Sametime Awareness for Sharepoint 2010, so Sametime awareness in Sharepoint may be a short lived feature, until IBM issues an update..
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Posted by Gary Wickham At 11:32:27 PM On 05/18/2010 | - Website - |
Posted by Denny Russell At 07:42:33 AM On 05/19/2010 | - Website - |
@2 I just used the page from the InfoCenter { Link }
Posted by Carl Tyler At 08:14:41 AM On 05/19/2010 | - Website - |
Posted by Denny Russell At 08:19:29 AM On 05/19/2010 | - Website - |