• Enable or disable registration. If registration is enabled, you create your user name and logon password for Sametime and Sametime Connect. If registration is disabled, your system administrator assigns your user name and password.
• Require the following:
  • Participants to log on to use Sametime. If you must log on and registration is disabled, you can obtain a user name and password from your system administrator.
  • Participants to log on before attending or scheduling meetings.
  • Participants who do not log on to Sametime to customize their default names.

• Determine the following:
  • Whether to log all chat conversations.
• Enable or disable the following:
  • The ability to send announcements.
  • The ability to automatically log on to Sametime Connect.
  • The ability to save proxy and logon information.
  • The Connectivity tabs for Sametime Connect. Enable or disable the ability to include External users in your contact list.
  • The ability to select a default log-in status (such as "I am active" or "I am away") for their Sametime Connect clients. This log-in status to other online members of the Sametime community at the time the user starts the Sametime Connect client. This feature must be implemented with the Sametime toolkit.

• Allow you to enable a meeting on multiple servers.
• Determine whether meetings can occur on servers within your organization, external to your organization, or both.

Your system administrator can incorporate Sametime features into other software programs or additional areas of Sametime. This expanded functionality lets you send instant messages from any place that you see green names: e-mail messages or other programs.