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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 clients
This section provides information on managing HCL Sametime clients.

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.
    - Managing client types and logins
      You can manage the manner and order of client logins to HCL® Sametime®.
    - Connecting the Sametime® Connect client to the Sametime® Community Server
      The Sametime® Connect Client uses Server Communities preferences to connect to the Sametime Community Server for presence and chat features.
    - Sametime Client Configuration Options
      There are several methods to customize the user experience for Sametime clients. This section covers Expeditor based clients that are capable of leveraging the Expeditor Managed Settings framework. These clients include the Sametime client for Windows or Mac, and the HCL Notes embedded Sametime client for Windows or Mac. This does not apply to the PWA, web or mobile 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.
  - 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

Managing Sametime clients

This section provides information on managing HCL Sametime clients.

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Managing client types and logins

Connecting the Sametime Client to the Sametime Community Server

Sametime Client configuration options

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