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Welcome to the HCL Sametime® 11.6 administration documentation
Configuring
This section provides information on configuring the servers for HCL Sametime 11.6.
Meetings
This section will discuss Meetings configuration steps specific to the HCL Sametime Meetings server.
Enabling Microsoft Outlook Add-in
This section provide steps to enable the Microsoft Outlook Add-in on the HCL Sametime Meetings server.

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.
  - Setting up business cards
    You can configure the Sametime Community Server so that business card information about an individual displays when a user hovers over a name in a chat window or a contact list.
  - Community Services
    This section will discuss configuration steps specific to the HCL Sametime Community server.
  - Clustering
    This section will discuss clustering steps specific to the HCL Sametime Community server.
  - Meetings
    This section will discuss Meetings configuration steps specific to the HCL Sametime Meetings server.
    - Enabling Meeting Configuration Changes
    - Implementing Secure User Rooms
      This is an optional feature. By default when you configure Sametime 11.6 Meetings, users are given a moderated meeting room that contains a portion of their user name (or guid). To implement a random meeting room name that does not contain their user name, enable the secure user room feature.
    - Enabling Meeting dial-in
      You can enable users to participate in a Sametime meeting using their phone by enable the dial-in feature. The dial-in feature uses the ilink TeamCall Meeting Gateway (TMG).
    - Enabling Meeting Dial-out
      You can enable the Dial-out option on Docker and Kubernetes.
    - Configuring the maximum number of meeting occupants
      By default, the Sametime Meeting Server restricts the number of users in a meeting to 100 users.
    - Enabling SAML for Meetings
    - Enable Videobridge for TCP
      This section provides steps to configure TCP for media streams on the HCL Sametime Meeting Server on TCP port 4443.
    - Disable Sharing Meetings Recording
      This section provides information on disabling sharing meetings recordings.
    - Enabling Microsoft Outlook Add-in
      This section provide steps to enable the Microsoft Outlook Add-in on the HCL Sametime Meetings server.
    - Setting up a TURN server
      A TURN server can be configured to provide for efficient traffic flow within your Sametime meeting.
- Securing
  This section provides information on securing HCL Sametime 11.6 environments.
- Administering
  This section provides information on administering HCL Sametime 11.6 environments.
- 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

Enabling Microsoft Outlook Add-in

This section provide steps to enable the Microsoft Outlook Add-in on the HCL Sametime Meetings server.

About this task

Sametime Meetings 11.6 IF1

The Outlook Add-in is provided with Sametime Meetings 11.6 IF1 installs and upgrades. Follow these steps to enable the Outlook Add-in on Sametime Meetings 11.6 IF1 environments.

Docker

Edit the .env file.
Change the ENABLE_OUTLOOK_ADDIN parameter from "false" to "true".
Find the parameter COMPOSE_PROFILES=outlookAddin and uncomment out by removing the #.
Save and restart to enable.

Kubernetes

Edit the values.yaml file.
Change the enableOutlookAddin parameter from "false" to "true".
Save and restart to enable.

Sametime Meetings 11.6

For Sametime Meetings 11.6 environments, the Outlook Add-in needs to be downloaded separately from HCL Software Portal and installed.

Download the sametime_meetings_outlook.zip from HCL Software Portal and unzip the contents to the same location as the sametime-meeting server was unzipped to. There will be 2 new files and 1 overwrite (findDeployment).
Run the command:
```
./loadOutlook.sh
```
This command will identify the Sametime Meetings deployment and provide steps to install the Add-in. Once completed, restart the server with docker-compose on Docker or upgrade the helm on Kubernetes.

Microsoft Outlook clients can install the add-in following the Installing Sametime Meetings Add-in instructions.

For information on administering Office Add-ins see:

Deploy and publish Office Add-ins

Publish add-ins via Centralized Deployment

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