Getting Started with Sametime

Imagine that you are talking to a coworker who is halfway across the world. You are talking without using a telephone, and you can see each other as though you were in the same room. Now imagine that your coworker opens a document that you are both working on, and you can see it and make changes to it. Without a fax machine. Without e-mail.

You can stop imagining.

With IBM^® Lotus^® Instant Messaging and Web Conferencing (Sametime^® 6.5.1), you can meet with anyone, anywhere, anytime. You can collaborate with your coworkers in many ways, including:

• Sending instant messages and transferring files to your coworkers in real time
• Communicating with computer audio and video
• Editing shared files and saving your changes
• Sending Web pages and poll questions to meeting participants
• Recording your meeting so that other people can view it later

Sametime Features

Read the IBM^® Lotus^® Instant Messaging and Web Conferencing User's Guide to learn more about the following components of Sametime.

• The Sametime Welcome Page: Includes links to all of the components of Sametime. To reach the Sametime Welcome page, enter the following address in a Web browser: http://servername, where servername is the name of the Sametime server.

Tip You must enter the fully qualified Domain Name System (DNS) name of the server. For example, if your server is http://www.sametime.com, you must enter the full name; you cannot enter "sametime" or "sametime.com." (See your administrator if you do not know the fully qualified DNS name of the server.)

• The Meeting Center: Allows you to schedule and attend Sametime meetings.
• The Meeting Room: Allows you to participate in a meeting. The Meeting Room includes a list of meeting participants, an area for shared information (such as a presentation), an area for computer audio and video, and an area to send chat messages, view poll responses, and view Web pages sent by the Moderator.
• IBM Lotus Sametime Connect: Allows you to chat with your online colleagues. You can also start instant meetings and transfer files from Sametime Connect.

Sametime Documentation

Sametime includes help systems for end users and administrators.

Help for end users

From the Sametime Welcome page, click Quick Start Guide to access information that will help end users get started with the Sametime Connect client and the Sametime Meeting Center.

From the Sametime Welcome page, click Documentation to access the IBM^® Lotus^® Instant Messaging and Web Conferencing User's Guide. This help system provides comprehensive help for the end user features of Sametime. This help system is also accessible from the Help menus of the Sametime Connect client and the Sametime Meeting Room client.

If you download the Sametime Print Capture utility, you can access help for Print Capture from the Print dialog box of the program you are using. See the topic "Converting Files with Sametime Print Capture" in the IBM^® Lotus^® Instant Messaging and Web Conferencing User's Guide for more information.

Help for administrators

Help for system administrators includes the IBM^® Lotus^® Instant Messaging and Web Conferencing Installation Guide and the IBM^® Lotus^® Instant Messaging and Web Conferencing Administrator's Guide. These help systems are available on the Sametime CD as Lotus Notes databases. The IBM^® Lotus^® Instant Messaging and Web Conferencing Installation Guide is also in PDF format. You can access the IBM^® Lotus^® Instant Messaging and Web Conferencing Administrator's Guide online from the Help link in the Sametime Administration Tool.

The filenames of the Sametime 6.5.1 help systems are listed below.

You can also visit the Lotus Developer Domain Web site at http://www.ibm.com/lotus/ldd to download this documentation.

Domino Documentation

Sametime uses a Domino infrastructure based on the Domino 6.5.1 server release. Administrators interested in more information about the functioning of the Domino infrastructure can access online versions of Domino documentation at the Lotus Developer Domain Web site: http://www.ibm.com/lotus/ldd.

See also:

• Using Sametime Connect
• Determining Which Version of Sametime Connect You Are Using
• Working with Sametime Meetings
• Attending and Participating in Sametime Meetings
• Presenting Information in a Meeting
• Communicating in a Meeting
• Moderating a Meeting
• Finishing a Meeting
• Preparing to Use Audio and Video