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HCL Sametime 12.0.2: Enhanced Collaboration, Security, and Simplified Management

  • Justin Hill
  • Feb 29, 2024
  • 3 min read

Updated: 4 days 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

Icons and text on a black background. Sections titled Empower Users, Make Admin Easy, and Modernize Your Toolset highlight collaborative improvements.
  • Combined Chat and Meetings client

HCL Sametime interface showing "Chat" and "Meetings" tabs. Two user profiles, messages, and a "Get Started" button featured.
  • Chat Deletion and Reactions

Chat showing messages with emojis and a deleted message notification. One message mentions discussing design guidelines. Timestamp visible.
  • Remove Users from Group Chat

Participant list interface with three contacts. A red arrow points to a trash icon next to Alan Flemings, who is marked available.
  • In-meeting awareness and attendees on pre-join

    Status menu shows "Auto-update status" option with availability indicators. Below, a meeting page reads "4 people are already in this meeting."
  • Advanced privacy settings and Complex meeting passwords

    Three screenshots display meeting settings: password requirements, recording options, and a StaffWeeklyMeeting consent screen.
  • Make Administration Easier: New administration client and Policy Management

    Admin dashboard showing a list of policies with names, weights, and action icons. "Add a Policy" button and search bar are visible.
  • Monitor Usage and Statistics

    Analytics dashboard displaying graphs and metrics like Checking Sessions (89), Chat Server Logins (167), Active Group Chats (147).
  • Managed Chart Deployment on Windows and Linux

    • Install with Database and TURN

    • Support for K3s and MongoDB Atlas

    • Improvement LTPA and LDAP Integration

      Software installation screen showing options for cluster setup and LTPA configuration. Text prompts for passwords and administrator email.
  • Enhancements to APIs

    Menu on left, text on right in HCL Sametime API Documentation. Describes options for using Chat REST APIs, with headings and instructions.
  • Enhancements to Drop-in Widgets

    Chat interface with "HCL Sametime Chat REST APIs" title. Screen shows user status options: available, away, in meeting, do not disturb.

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.

Diagram showing HCL Sametime Premium connections. Internal Zone includes MongoDB, LDAP, and Rich Clients. External Zone has browsers, mobile, STUN. Version 12.

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.

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