HCL Sametime 12.0.2: Enhanced Collaboration, Security, and Simplified Management
- Justin Hill
- Feb 29, 2024
- 3 min read
Updated: 7 hours ago
HCL has made it a habit of organizing webinars to keep us updated with the news in the Domino ecosystem. Today, let’s dive into why upgrading to Sametime 12.0.2 is a good idea.
If you are still wondering why HCL Sametime would be a good option for you, it’s because it offers an instant business collaboration solution providing secure, feature-rich chat and instant video meetings ensuring your data privacy.
Business Collaboration
Instant chat and video meetings
Seamless enhancement through APIs and drop-in Widgets
Lowering TCO
Cloud-Native or On-Premise deployments, scaling to your business needs
Competitive Pricing
Data Privacy
Trusted by Governments, Banks, and regulated industries to protect their policies
Storage, archives, and access, all under your administrative control
Your Meetings. Your Data. Your Business. Privacy and security are made affordable.
Through Domino Entitlement Sametime is available to deploy and use supporting Live Name and Persistent Chat in clients such as Notes, Verse, and of course the Sametime standalone clients.
HCL Sametime Premium on the other hand comes with meetings and advanced chat features.
Single offering with chat and meetings technology built to run together!
Voice, video, persistent chat, and screen sharing
No client installation; no plug-ins
Elegant and functional user experience
Livestream Meetings
Telephony Dial-in and Dial Out
HCL Sametime 12.0 and 12.0.1 What is new?
New features that were added in 12.0:
Privacy and Security
Meeting Modes (Collaboration, Confidential, Lecture)
Member Management
Branding and Personalization
Rebrand meetings home page, join screens, and more
Custom video backgrounds
Meeting Reports
Attendance, Summary or Full Reports
Meetings Home Page redesign
Easy access to meeting Recordings and reports, Recently joined
Search for meetings based on date and other criteria
Waiting Room
Owner admits selected people and can message people waiting to join
Meeting Pre-Join Experience Enhancements
Easier access to testing audio/video
Easier to set camera & microphone preferences before joining
In-Meeting Experience Enhancements
Users sharing camera or screen sort to the top of users’ tile view
Speaking on mute detection & noise detection
Web Chat Enhancements
Ability to Pin & Mute specific chat conversations
Click-to-Call from a web Chat client
MS Outlook Calendar Integration
Add a Sametime meeting with a click
Apple CarPlay and Android Auto support
New Features that were added in HCL Sametime 12.0.1
Administration
Dashboards for Monitoring chat and Meetings
Deployment
Chat-only Kubernetes deployment support
“Push proxy” support for mobile notifications for highly secure networks
Integration
Client Platform and API tech preview and enhancements
Meetings Enhancements
Safari browser support for meetings
Microphone/camera/screen share access issues feedback UX
Control audio/video devices from Firefox browser
Additional meetings keyboard shortcuts
Network performance indicator
Meetings timer
Chat Enhancements
Group chat renaming improved
Chat filtering for 1-1s, Group & Meetings
User nickname management in web chat
What is new in HCL Sametime 12.0.2

Combined Chat and Meetings client

Chat Deletion and Reactions

Remove Users from Group Chat

In-meeting awareness and attendees on pre-join
Advanced privacy settings and Complex meeting passwords
Make Administration Easier: New administration client and Policy Management
Monitor Usage and Statistics
Managed Chart Deployment on Windows and Linux
Install with Database and TURN
Support for K3s and MongoDB Atlas
Improvement LTPA and LDAP Integration
Enhancements to APIs
Enhancements to Drop-in Widgets
Deployment
Deployed on:
Docker | Podman
Kubernetes
Use:
LDAP
MongoDB
You now have a fully containerized solution, while still keeping the Directory support, persistent chat database, and chat and meetings requirements.

If you want to update your knowledge on Sametime, HCL has a lot of learning materials available for you here.
Upgrading and Migrating
Upgrading in the V12 environment, from V12 to V 12.0.2 is a very simple procedure: shut down, upgrade, start-up, and validate.
Migrating from pre-V12 versions is a bit more complex:
It does not support in-place upgrades
Keep the same LDAP directory type as the old server (If you are using native Domino, enable and convert to LDAP)
Migrate Buddy List to MongoDB using the notes-migration tool
Update the custom configuration to the new environment
Validate moving a few users
Move all users
Have a backup plan
If you have any questions about Sametime 12.0.2 just shoot us an email and we are happy to help you.
Comments