I’m sure you, like me, have seen the articles over the years. They come around every so often, with headlines saying “<IM TOOL> is THE email killer”, “Death of email spelled by <IM TOOL>”, and “<GENERATION WHATEVER> says no to email, yes to <IM TOOL>”. I’ve seen these headlines for the better part of two decades. And yet – curiously – email is still around, while many of these tools aren’t. There are a number of reasons why this is so. Some of them are deal with the different paradigms of communication, while others hinge on technological differences
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Sametime: Resolving "There was an error opening a chat session…" errors
I recently encountered the following error message when trying to initiate a chat session with a colleague.
Apparently, the error “0x80000005” means “The element is non-existent”. What happens is that when I tried to initialize a chat with my colleague, the Sametime client tries to open a Sametime channel to this user. It seems this is so rare an occurrence, the client hasn’t been programmed with a proper error message.
Luckily, the problem is resolved fairly easily. Logging off and on Sametime has resolved the problem for me.