Re: Messenger 5.1--Internal Users Only???



Greetings Mark,

You can limit Windows Messenger to using a Exchange IM Server or Live Communications Server,
but you cannot just restrict to specific IPs (without one of the previous servers I just
mentioned, or the public .NET Messenger network, Windows Messenger would have no way to
communicate).
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"Mark McWilliams" <mark@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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> We have users at our branch locations that I would like to be able to IM to
> without having to place a phone call to communicate with them. Is their
> anyway to setup Windows Messenger 5.1 for internal use only? I don't want
> this program to be able to communicate to the outside world. Could we use
> the Windows Messenger 5.1 Group Policy ADM File within our Windows 2003
> Server environment to limit Messenger to internal IP addresses only? I
> would like to be able to have my users setup internal buddy lists and have
> them show whether they are logged on or not.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Mark
>
>


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