OK, this doesn't happen too often.. Administration tips from a developer!
Wait! don't go away so fast! I used to be part admin as well plus I got the answer to my question straight from one of our authentic Administrators, Chris Whisonant.
This is having to deal with Sametime Communities and Lotus Notes 8.0.1.
After uprading to 8.0.1 I was no longer able to add multiple communities to my embedded Sametime client, It would still connect to my current multiple communities but I could not administer or add anything new. So I contacted a couple of our other Admins who tried to help me out the best he could but we could not find the answer together (none of us is a Sametime expert), so we contacted Chris.
What Chris informed me of was that if the Sametime server that is set as the default does not allow multiple communities, then you will not be able to do any type of administration on your embedded client. Therefore, I clicked "Reset User..." in the Sametime Preferences (File --> Preferences --> Sametime --> Sametime Preferences) and then when I logged back in I logged into the BleedYellow Sametime (im.bleedyellow.com) and set that as my default and -- BINGO! -- I could now add a new community.
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The only bad part was that I had to rebuild my contact list for my Non-Bleedyellow group.
Thanks for the help Chris!
1 Tim Tripcony Permalink Spectacular. I'd actually given up using the embedded client and was running the standalone separately, because I like being logged in to our internal server, BleedYellow, Greenhouse, and IBM's external community simultaneously. Although the latter is turning me away at the moment, I'm now logged in to the other three from within 8.0.1. Thanks for the heads up!
2 Chris Whisonant Permalink Note that this is not because the BleedYellow community is requiring itself to be default. This sounds more like a Notes 8.0.1 bug to me. Odd, thanks for pointing this out.
3 Glenn Boudreaux Permalink Excellent Hint! I too had given up on the embedded client because of this. Thank you so much!
4 Glenn Boudreaux Permalink Excellent Hint! I too had given up on the embedded client because of this. Thank you so much!