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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.
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.
Disabling Guest Access
You can disable guest access and remove the option from the meeting attend page.

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
    Multi-tenancy allows multiple organizations to be part of the HCL Sametime® community. With multi-tenancy, Sametime users can chat, add users and groups to contact lists, and have awareness of users in their organization or in other organizations that are configured to be visible to them.
  - 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.
    - Disabling Guest Access
      You can disable guest access and remove the option from the meeting attend page.
    - Configuring Live Streaming
      If you have a high number of users that need to attend a meeting without two-way interaction, you can live stream the conference to YouTube. It will only be a listen and watch experience for attendees in the live stream. The users will attend this meeting using a YouTube URL. Most of the live stream requirements are on the YouTube account that belongs to the user who moderates the meeting. In the context of YouTube live streaming, consider the Sametime Meeting server as an “encoder” for YouTube. There is no requirement to install additional software.
    - Increasing Active Cameras | Videos
      The default allowed active cameras is 5, with the most recent active cameras displaying.
    - Managing Recording
      You can control how long meeting recordings are available and also disable the recording feature.
    - Managing user sign-on
      You can control how long your Sametime meeting credentials are maintained to reduce the number of times you have to sign-in.
  - 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.
- 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

Disabling Guest Access

You can disable guest access and remove the option from the meeting attend page.

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Set the following policy to 0:

policy - anonymous - im.meetingsEnabled = 0.

Enter the following commands to remove guest access from the meeting attend page:

Docker

In the .env file, specify the following setting:

ENABLE_GUESTS=0

Kubernetes

Specify the following setting in meetings-configmap.yaml:

ReactAppShowGuestLoginByDefault in meetings-configmap.yaml (helm/templates)

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