OpenNTF has elected the new boards of Directors, you can see the details here.
Why have I decided to put forward my candidature, which has been accepted somewhat to my surprise ? OpenNTF has a strong focus, obviously, on the Development side of Domino and I thought that having a person who has always worked on the Admin side could give a different perspective. I believe that there are resources for Admins out there in the world and OpenNTF could collect them and make it easily available. A first step in this direction are the OpenNTF Guides but I believe that more can be done.
I need your help: if you have any ideas about how can OpenNTF help you Admins, get in touch with me and I will do my best to work with the Board to make things happen. My email is r (at) robertoboccadoro.com or roberto.boccadoro (at) eldeng.it
I am honored to be in the Board of Directors, is a privilege to be esteemed to be worth of this position and I will do my best to try to give a useful contribution.
My good friend and HCL Lifetime Ambassador Daniel Nashed already wrote a post about this topic, here.
Since in my test environment I do not have a proper domain name I had to tweak a bit some configuration settings in order to make the installation work; this can be useful if you want to setup a Meeting server inside your network using a domain like .local instead of your company real domain and hosts file instead of DNS.
The instructions in Daniel’s post are very clear, if you follow them the installation will go fine. The next step is to enable Sametime Community for Meetings One critical thing to be aware of is this part:
Enable Windows Sametime Community server to support Meetings Contact HCL Support for instructions to receive a required patch to allow JWT Configuration. Do not continue on Windows until this patch is in place.
Obviously I tried to configure ST Meetings without the patch, (what is a geek doing test installations expected to do ?) and it did not work. So open a case with Support and obtain that patch before setting up the Meeting server integration with Community server.
UPDATE: As per the comment from Tony Payne, the needed patch is now available on Flexnet when you download the product
What you need to do to make it work with hosts file instead of DNS is this: Edit the file docker-compose.yml and in the sections ‘auth’ and ‘nginx’ add an “extra hosts” entry and put there the name of your community and meeting servers, like this
This is a yaml file, so be careful to use spaces and not tabs and align text correctly as in the images. Then run the commands docker-compose down docker-compose up -d to restart the server
Many thanks to the Sametime Wizard, Tony Payne from HCL ,for helping me with this.
