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by Chris Miller at 10:26:55 AM on Tuesday, July 29th, 2008
Carl pinged me over the beloved Sametime Gateway before announcing it to the world so I could beat it up the new Sametime Buddylist Control Tool from Epilio (did I mention free).  While it is strictly a command line interface, it only took them a couple days of downtime to create this.  There are images of it in action on the website.

So the basics are this:
  • You could never give users a pre-defined buddylist
  • Users had to manually go in and add public groups/private groups and people
  • You want someone in particular added to buddylists, like a bot name
You get the general idea there.  Basically manipulate the buddylist how you see fit.  I would like to see this with a pretty UI wrapped around by someone, but I will take this awesome toolset as is for now.

The install was simple.  I chose to place it on my Sametime server directly for testing.  You can install on another machine, but then you need to trust the IP of that machine in stconfig.nsf.  I skipped that for testing.  Large amounts of processing will take time, of course.  But i was quite fast and the results are immediate.  Here is the real kicker to the whole thing.
The tool can run while the server is up and the user is logged in.  No downtime


Carl and his team at Epilio went as far as to create an actual manual with screenshots that can be found right here. in pdf format.  Amazing job and a welcome toolset for my team.

  • 1) Epilio did in 2 days (free) what Lotus hasn’t done for Sametime in 8 years
    Created by Craig Wiseman at 7/29/2008 12:47:44 PM email | website

    in the absence of leadership, initiative must suffice



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