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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.

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
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  - 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.
- 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

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.

About this task

Running the name conversion utility updates Community Server user or group names with the latest directory changes. The name conversion utility uses a comma-separated value list that you compile to change names, delete names, or convert all names from Domino to Domino LDAP formatted names.

Users create a contact list, a privacy list, and an alert-me-when list in the HCL® Sametime Connect client by selecting user names or group names from the Domino or Domino LDAP directory that is used with the Community Server. These contact, privacy, alert-me-when lists are stored in the user information database (vpuserinfo.nsf) on Community Servers. When a user starts the Sametime Connect client, the lists are downloaded from the database to update the lists stored on the client's local computer.

You do not need to run the name conversion utility when you add new users or groups to the Domino or LDAP directory.

Run the name conversion utility manually on a stand-alone Community Server, or on a server in a cluster which will replicate the change throughout the cluster.

Note: Be sure to stop the Domino server before you run the name conversion utility.

The name conversion utility accepts the following name changes:

Table 1. Descriptors for the name change utility
Descriptor	Purpose
ID	Change specified first names, last names, display names, or group names.
ORGANIZATION	Change the organization name for all users.
LDAP	Changes all contact list information from Domino Directory format to LDAP format. For example, a user listed as `CN=Maria Smith/OU=Sales/O=HCL` changes to `CN=Maria Smith,OU=Sales,O=HCL`. Note: This task can be performed only once because you can only convert the directory format one time.
DELETE	Remove specified individual contact names from contact lists and privacy lists.
REPORT	Generate textual output of vpuserinfo.nsf into CSV files.
REPLACE_HOST	Change the community host for all users.

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