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Sametime 8.5.2 Unified Telephony, extended status, and telephony status in the client

The IBM Lotus Sametime Connect 8.5.2 client, both standalone and integrated with Lotus Notes, includes the following plug-ins that were available separately in previous releases:
Lotus Sametime provides different options for administrators to change client preferences without requiring any action from end users. You can use any of these options to modify the three described client preferences. However, IBM recommends the managed preferences mechanism for changing these and other client preferences. Here is an overview of the managed preferences mechanism:

Below is the format of the managed-settings.xml file that you should use to enable or disable Unified Telephony, extended status, and telephony status. The values set here are a minimum for the Avaya AES presence to be visible in the Connect client:

<Managed Settings>

<settingGroup name=com.ibm.collaboration.realtime>

<setting name=enableSUT value=false/>

<setting name= enableTelephony Status value=true/>

<setting name=enableExtendedStatus value=true/>

</settingGroup>

</ManagedSettings>

For more information on using managed settings, see the section on configuring client preferences with the Expeditor managed settings framework in the Lotus Sametime Installation and Administration Guide.

A discussion of the update site and Sametime user policies for managing the Connect client preferences is outside the scope of this guide. The administrator should consult the IBM Sametime documentation for recommendations and best practices regarding managing user policies and settings. For experienced administrators who want to quickly verify telephony presence, the preferences for the standalone Connect client can be set manually at the client to override the default preferences.