HCL Sametime depends on so many factors in your environment. How is your Network Firewall and Load balancer, do you need only internal chats and meetings? What is required in your user directory? What is the expected load and how does this affect your network? What features of the product do you want to use? In this session I want to give you step-by-step instructions on how to build your HCL Sametime environment, make the right decisions so that your system later works smoothly and is successful.