I’ve seen a lot of things in my life, as you can well imagine. However, this has to be one of the more interesting things I’ve seen.
As a member of a Collaboration and Messaging Team, I do, on “occasion,” have need to open PMRs with IBM Technical Support. I have found that asking the IBM Tech to do a screen share with me to be a very effective method of troubleshooting issues with them.
Today, the day after provisioning of my IBM Verse Basic account and the day I actually was able to log in to Verse, I needed to do a screen share with IBM on an open PMR. As always, the technician sent me a link to his meeting room.
Nothing unusual about that, it happens all the time when IBM and I are going to work a PMR.
What is unusual is what happened after I clicked the link.
This is what I see on a workstation that has never logged into IBM Verse:
And this is what I see when I click the link on a workstation that has logged into IBM Verse:
A “slight” difference in the log in page, which really threw me for a loop.
Yes, I can attend the meeting using my IBM Verse credentials. But that was not the expected behavior.
No, I did not clear my browser cache before attending the meeting (why would I do that?). However, later, after ending the meeting, I did clear the cache, restarted the browser, and saw this:
Weird, right?
Gregg Eldred 