Reviewing the checklist to deploy Sametime clients

Table 1. Deployment Summary
Checklist for deploying Sametime® clients
Deployment type These instructions deploy the Sametime Connect Client, a rich desktop client, and mobile clients. Web clients are deployed by providing chat and meeting URLs to users.
Review system requirements IBM® Sametime 9 System Requirements
Review the release notes IBM Sametime 9 Release Notes
Review Planning documentation
Not covered by this deployment

These instructions do not cover meetings, audio and video, external access to chat, or steps for expanding your deployment for high availability and failover.

Summary
  1. Connect the Sametime Connect Client to the Sametime Community server to ensure everything works.
  2. Prepare for installing and deploying clients.
  3. Customize the installation packages.
  4. Install the clients and enable features.
  5. Distribute updates and optional features.
  6. Configure the client.
  7. Manage clients with policies.
  8. Push updates to clients automatically.
  9. Configure servers and open ports for mobile users.