Sametime and Connections Plugins in Lotus Notes

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Some more points to my working configuration of Single Sign-On in Lotus Notes.

Automating configuration with plugin_customization.ini

I do a lot of software tests with my productive Notes Client (on Mac OS), so i often delete the Expeditor-folder in ~/Library/Application Support/Lotus Notes Data/. So i place configuration details in /Applications/Notes.app/Contents/MacOS/rcp/plugin_customization.ini, then the settings get automatically applied.


# Connections Config
com.ibm.lconn.client.base/server=http\://connections.example.com/profiles
com.ibm.lconn.client.base/authtype=DOMINO-SSO
com.ibm.lconn.client.base/dominosso.dominoresolveservername=false
com.ibm.lconn.client.base/authserver=$hierarchical Domino-Server-Name$
com.ibm.lconn.client.base/dominosso.useclustermates=true
com.ibm.lconn.client.base/dominosso.preferred.username.field=ShortName
com.ibm.lconn.client.base/policy-mode=OVERWRITE
com.ibm.lconn.client.base/enableConnectionsIntegration=true
# Sametime Config
com.ibm.collaboration.realtime.community/name=$Name for Community$
com.ibm.collaboration.realtime.community/host=$Hostname of Sametime Server$
com.ibm.collaboration.realtime.community/defaultAuthType=ST-DOMINO-SSO
com.ibm.collaboration.realtime.community/authServerUrl=$hierarchical Domino Server Name$
com.ibm.collaboration.realtime.community/loginByToken=true
com.ibm.collaboration.realtime.community/tokenLoginOnly=true
com.ibm.collaboration.realtime.community/loginAtStartup=true
com.ibm.collaboration.realtime.login/autologin=true
com.ibm.collaboration.realtime.login/alwaysLoggedIn=true
com.ibm.collaboration.realtime.imhub/disableExit=false
# Status Updater Fix to show profile pictures
com.ibm.lconn.statusupdates/download.image.enabled=true

Sametime will only apply the settings of plugin_customization.ini, when following file is not present!

~/Library/Application Support/Lotus Notes Data/Expeditor/Applications/.metadata/.plugins/com.ibm.collaboration.realtime.login/CANONICAL_NAME.xml

Applying these settings through a Desktop setting document and policy

You can apply this through a policy too, you have to add the values to a Desktop settings document. Syntax is described here: IBM KB 21407709.

There is a bug in the desktop settings document until Notes / Domino 8.5.3, you can’t delete the entries.

Details:

Comments on Detlef Poettgen tells, that error is still active in 8.5.2 FP3, i tested 8.5.3 and it works.

Please be aware, that Domino Directory allows stored forms and if you want to delete Managed Settings of an Desktop settings document which is created before 8.5.3, the error still occurs.

Path in Windows Installations

  • Expeditor\Applications folder is $Notes Data$\workspace.
  • Path to plugin_customization.ini: $Notes Program$\framework\rcp

Notes Client 8.5.3 and Domino-SSO for Connections Plugins

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In only two weeks starts LCTY Edcom Nachlese 2012 in Munich.

I prepare a session on Single Sign On in Notes / Domino environments.

So i had time to check some settings in Lotus Notes. Since 8.5.3 we have a new option Domino-SSO for Connections Plugin.

Preference Settings Lotus Notes 8.5.3

I made several tests with my installed Notes Client on Mac OS, but i had no success. I tested with several settings in the preferences dialog and with different settings in plugin_customization.ini.

I had one configuration where i can use Sametime Tokenbased Login and leave “Domino Single Sign-On Server” empty in connections preferences, but this works only with running Notes Client and i had to apply the setting again after restart the client.

Now i deleted the Expeditor folder in my Notes Data to reconfigure the client. What should i say? The SSO-Server works now. I had to use the hierarchical Domino server name. It would be interesting, which technique is used here, because the Domino and Connections Server are in different domains, so it is no LTPA SSO.

Update

Only a short add-on. It is LTPA SSO, but i think domain from Web SSO document gets applied.

Notes Plugin “Status Updater” shows no pictures

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Thanks to Marcel de Hoog, i got a solution for the missing pictures in Status Updater Plugin in Lotus Notes.

Add com.ibm.lconn.statusupdates/download.image.enabled=true to your plugin_customization.ini. This works on Windows and Mac OS! Haven’t tested it on Linux.

via: http://marceldehoog.blogspot.com/2011/12/status-updates-and-pictures.html 

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Portal Solutions Blog: Why Indentity Management is Important to Portal and Collaboration

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Michael Porter wrote a very interesting article with three examples, why Identity Management is really important.

Some of the biggest usability pain points I’ve seen had less to do with the UI and more to do with the process of setting the users up correctly so they can see all the content to which they are entitled.

Read more >

Thanks.