Allowing logins from clients that are older than the specified minimal version
Configure the IBM® Sametime® Community Server to accept logins from users who are running older versions of the Sametime Connect and Sametime Notes-embedded clients.
Before you begin
ST_MINIMAL_CLIENT_VERSION
and ST_FORCE_LOGOUT_OLD_CLIENT_VERSION
(or VP_SECURITY_ALLOW_USER
)
parameters to the sametime.ini file to block
login attempts from clients older than a specified version as described
in the topic, Specifying the minimum allowed client version.About this task
Maintaining a flexible login policy is especially important in environments that include a large number of older Sametime clients. In such an environment, immediately enforcing a minimum client version can result in a high volume of help desk calls; best practice is to allow users several weeks to upgrade their clients before enforcing the minimum version.
If you have already configured the Community
Server to enforce a minimum version of the client, you can avoid locking
users out by setting the ST_FORCE_LOGOUT_OLD_CLIENT_VERSION
parameter
to 0 so that it does not log out older clients.
After the deadline for upgrading passes, set the value to 1 to
block logins from clients older than the minimum allowed version.