IBM Sametime Proxy Server - add tokenDomain to your stproxyconfig.xml to fix SSO issues

As a best practice and to make sure you resolve any issues you may have with SSO between IBM Sametime components, IBM recommends you to add the following line to your stproxyconfig.xml settings for your Sametime Proxy Server:

<tokenDomain>company.co.uk</tokenDomain>

If your internet/SSO domain has 3 levels (i.e. company.co.uk, empresa.com.br, us.companyinternal.com) the SSO token is generated incorrectly and only uses the last 2 levels (.co.uk, .com.br, and companyinternal.com respectively).

Add the above line to make sure the token is correctly generated.

Technote on Errors installing Sametime server on Linux

If you're installing a Lotus Sametime server on Linux, be sure to check out the technote below with information on the most common errors and how to solve them:

Title: Errors installing Sametime server on Linux
Doc #: 1303973
URL: http://www.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?rs=899&uid=swg21303973

Service Pack 2 do Windows Server 2003 afeta negativamente servidores Lotus Domino e Sametime

A IBM publicou recentemente o technote 1295167 - Domino and Sametime performance issues traced to Windows Server 2003 Scalable Networking Pack. Se você está observando problemas de performance com seus servidores Domino ou Sametime após aplicar o Service Pack 2 do Windows 2003, siga as instruções contidas no technote para solucionar esse problema:

The following will resolve the problem:

1. Disable SNP features in accordance with Microsoft's instructions. Note that Registry edits may be required. See Microsoft article 912222 for details.

2. Ensure that the server's NIC does not enable TCP off-loading (which may be labeled "TCO", "TCP Chimney Offload," or "TCP Checksum Offload.")

3. The following Windows Registry Key can be Disabled to turn off the Chimney Offload feature:
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\Tcpip
\Parameters\EnableTCPChimney

via Notes from Lotus Support.

Help needed: Sametime 8 server installer says server.id has a password

I'm doing a fresh new install of a Sametime 8 server environment on top of a new Domino 8 install. Server is installed as standard, out of the box settings, no server.id password is set. Start Domino 8 server, and it runs fine. However, the Sametime 8 installer swears the server.id has a password on it:

The install detected that the Domino server ID is password protected. This password is required to complete the Sametime server configuration. Enter the password, and choose Next to validate the password.

I've gone into the ID Properties to double check, no password is defined. Has anyone run into this before? Haven't had an issue with Sametime 7.5.1.

UPDATE: Thanks to Chris Gambrell for the tip on the STSkipDominoPasswordCheck=true environment variable which did the trick.