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by Chris Miller at 07:33:00 AM on Thursday, January 29th, 2009

With the hype announcements around LotusLive I am still surprised to see no changes to the function or UI except the name migrating from BlueHouse. One thing that I still find interesting is the Sametime IM integration. Instead of working on a rich web client, they require (not option) that you add the LotusLive Engage community to an existing Sametime Connection 7.5.1 or higher client or download the stand-alone Connect client. The idea of the cloud side is not to have local items to manage. But here we are installing one. Make sense? Nope.

If I use LotusLive Engage as my primary community, what policy settings will I get? What controls are in place? Who is allowed to modify these for my users? I cannot even connect to http://im.lotuslive.com via HTTP to get any information. Plus the page for the client does not specify if I should use the native Sametime port (1533), port 80 or some other variant. This will make a huge difference on firewalls at numerous client sites.

Hopefully Lotus hears this and adds the feature and functions necessary to do some true cloud work in the IM portion of LotusLive.

Location: St. Louis, MO

1) LotusLive Instant Messaging concerns
Created by Rob Ingram at 1/29/2009 8:36:08 AM email | website

Chris

If you saw the Sametime 8.5 web IM client demo, you can imagine that will be our future mechanism to deploy the Sametime chat capabilities in Lotuslive and other Lotus web applications over time. Once we deliver the web capability later this year we will be working to drive the feature into Lotuslive. We didn't want to have no Sametime chat offering in Lotuslive so the client is the best user experience option for now and ideal full featured user experience for those already using the client on their desktop or Notes 8.x

2) LotusLive Instant Messaging concerns
Created by Tim E. Brown at 1/29/2009 10:41:59 AM email |

Chris,

fyi....port 1533 works fine, but port 80 does not, they need to tunnell and open port 80 for the firewall corporate envioronment issues you mentioned.

-Tim E. Brown

3) re: LotusLive Instant Messaging concerns
Created by Chris Miller at 1/29/2009 4:50:45 PM email | website

@Rob - I saw the demo but was still surprised to see the downloaded client and no web based one with the current announcements. I look forward to the new one as it looks outstanding!

4) LotusLive Instant Messaging concerns
Created by Denny Russell at 2/4/2009 6:30:54 AM email | website

Chris,

What suprises me is that there is no group to add (or at least I haven't found it yet). So now I have to go in and figure out a user and add them manually. Give me a LotusLive Group that I can add.

Or am I missing something?

5) re: LotusLive Instant Messaging concerns
Created by Chris Miller at 2/4/2009 8:50:03 AM email | website

@Denny - no groups that I know of or could imagine how with all the cross company information

6) LotusLive Instant Messaging concerns
Created by Denny Russell at 2/9/2009 6:47:22 AM email | website

I guess I'm thinking along the lines of the 'BleedYellow' IM and the group they have. It would just be nice to have an 'All' users group that I can add aand hen see someone is out there.

Users could opt in if they want listed there or not.

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