Using IBM Sametime® Office
Integration with Microsoft™ Office
allows you to collaborate, create meetings, and chat with co-workers
from Microsoft Office.
About this task
Sametime Integration
with Microsoft Office offers
the following features:
- Sametime Connect
Client integrator
for Microsoft Office
- Microsoft Outlook calendar
availability
- Sametime Connect
Client integrator
for Microsoft Outlook
- Sametime Meeting
Integrator for Microsoft Outlook
- Sametime Connect
Client integrator
for SharePoint
Office Integration is included in the Sametime Connect
Client and Sametime Embedded Client for Windows,
but you must enable it before users can take advantage of this feature.
The steps in the procedure show the high-level order of installation.
Not all steps must occur manually.
Procedure
- Install Microsoft Office.
- Install Sametime Office
Integration. This is accomplished when you install the Sametime Connect
Client or Sametime Embedded Client for Windows™.
Microsoft Windows Vista and Windows 7 clients must run the installation
program as an administrator and, when prompted, consent to run the
program with elevated privileges. This allows proper creation of new
application icons on the Windows Desktop
or in the Windows Start menu
and ensures proper creation of global registry keys. After installation,
log on as a regular user, to restore the default security for the
client.
- Configure Sametime Connect
Client clients
to use the Office Integration features.
- Download
and extract the plugin_customization.ini file.
- Open the plugin_customization.ini file
in a text editor:
Linux™
/etc/ibm/sametime-connect/plugin_customization.ini
Mac
install_mpkg\deploy\plugin_customization.ini
Windows
install-kit-base-dir\deploy\plugin_customization.ini
- Add the following settings to the plugin_customization.ini file:
com.ibm.collaboration.realtime/startBroker=TRUE
If
you installed Microsoft Office 64-bit, add the following line to the
plugin_customization.ini file
for the
Sametime client:
com.ibm.collaboration.realtime.oi/InstallX64Binaries=TRUE
- Set the following Sametime Connect
Client client preferences
as applicable:
- Install or upgrade theSametime client on user
workstations so they can take advantage of the new features.
- In Microsoft Office,
enable the Sametime SmartTags
Recognizer.
The Sametime SmartTags Recognizer
reads names in the user's buddy list or in email format and treats
them as Sametime contacts.
- Click , and then click AutoCorrect
Options.
- Select Enable additional actions in the right-click
menu if it is not already selected.
- In the Available actions list
select the following actions:
- Sametime Contact (Sametime Recognizer)
- Phone Number (Sametime Phone Number Recognizer)
- Click OK.