Re: Add external contacts to messenger in SIP?

Hi,

There's actually a policy one can define to stop Windows Messenger from connecting to
anything but SIP, so this is probably how they've set it up. As such, there's no real way to
connect to the .NET Messenger network nor to add contacts (well, not from a client side
anyway.

Although depending on how the network has been deployed, there may be a way of overriding the
policy, but if you want to keep your job, I'd suggest not bothering.

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<stefanlines@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
news:1140684673.122699.242140@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Hi,

Thanks for your reply! Here's my situation: At my job, all computers
have Windows Messenger 5.1 installed but you can only connect to the
SIP network with an email address provided by the company, thus you can
only add contacts within the company network. I was wondering if there
is any way you can sign in and add .NET contacts as well since that
option doesn't seem to exist. Maybe it has been blocked by the
administrators...

I'm not totally sure what SIP is and how it works so sorry for the poor
explanation.

Thanks



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