Complete Uninstall of Lotus Sametime 8.5.1

I was having an issue with my Lotus Sametime 8.5.1 where when I started up the program, it would hang while loading my buddylist and logging into the Sametime Meeting server.  In order to do a complete uninstall of Lotus Sametime, run the Add/Remove Program Control Panel to remove the program, reboot your machine and finally delete the following directory in Windows XP:

C:\Document and Settings\<username>\Application Data\Lotus\Sametime

 

Fun with DST

Oh, boy! Aren’t we having fun with the Daylight Saving Time (DST) issue? The agents for Lotus Notes are going to be released in the version 4 by close of business today. In order to patch for the DST issue, you need to apply a Windows server patch, a Windows desktop patch and run an agent to fix the bad entries in the address book between March 11 and April 1 (2am) and October 28th and November 4th (2am). We have been testing both Windows Server 2000 and 2003 as well as Windows 2000 and XP. so far we have the patches on the server and the client on both and now we just need to run the agent on the test mail file to see if it corrects the entries. The issue in Lotus Notes is that the display of the Notes calendar entries appear an hour later than were originally scheduled. For example, a meeting scheduled for March 14 for 7am appears in the Calendar view for 8am, but when you open the entry, it still says 7am. The agent is supposed to modify all entries within those dates. I plan on running it as a background task if possible.

Blackberrys are in the same boat.  We are on server 4.0.3 and need to be on 4.0.6 or 4.1.1 in order to relably push out the forthcoming patch to the smart phones.

Sametime 7.5 needs to be patched, but previous versions do not have to be.

So I am having fun.  Nothing like waiting for the last minute to roll out these fixes.