If you plan to manage your HCL Sametime clients via Expeditor managed settings framework and automatically updating their preferences via “managed-settings.xml” file, make sure that the file(s) are placed on a web server, in that way, so these files can be accessed without any form of authentication.
A SAML enabled server may look like a good idea, but at least in my tests, I could not get it to work with HCL Sametime Embedded client.
Thoughts about HCL Connections, Domino and Sametime 