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SmartCloud for Social Business aka LotusLive.com is changing it’s domain name and adding Sametime meetings


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The notice came today that LotusLive.com (SmartCloud for Social Business) will be officially changing over it's domain name to CollabServ.com starting December 1 2012.  While the LotusLive.com domain will still work with redirects, they are strongly urging you to make the necessary firewall and rules updates as needed.
Early in 2012, IBM announced rebranding of our service, from LotusLive to IBM SmartCloud for Social Business.  This quarter, we are announcing the next phase of the rebranding -- changing the service domain itself.

From:  *.lotuslive.com
To:       *.collabserv.com


The above change will take place on or after December 1 2012 so anything that you specifically allow to this domain should be updated.  Additionally..


There is also a preview and then change to using IBM Sametime as the meeting service engine

In December, IBM plans to introduce an enhanced SmartCloud Meetings service based on our Sametime technology, with new features and benefits for your users.

IBM is continually improving our SmartCloud Meetings capabilities – we continue to advance our service by introducing a new IBM SmartCloud Meeting service that is based on IBM Sametime - to deliver more capabilities and features in the cloud from IBM's industry leading on premises social communications software. IBM is on a track to delivery feature symmetry with our on premises products, and to share a code base between premises and cloud. Delivering Sametime Meetings service in the cloud is a delivery on this strategic direction.


This will be a good change from the multiple behind the scenes meeting services that you jump around between.