Instant Messenging Woes

[Jing Su]

> Hello Everyone.
>
> I am now in the position of having to regulate Instant Message clients in our Network. Does anyone have experience with this?
>
> I would like to:
>
> Use an internal IM system for staff to use.
> Allow certain employees to connect to the outside world.
> Keep track of who they connect to.
>
> We use IM for communication between remote offices and Technical Support etc, but some people have started to chat with their buddies instead of working.
>
> I don't want to shutdown the Instant Message clients completely. Currently the client of choice is MSN.

Though I don't have any experience in this area, I've heard that many
people use Jabber since it's an opensource project.

http://www.jabber.org/

Freshmeat also brings up a few MSN server programs that you might look
into.  I'm sure those projects probably contain FAQs on how to redirect
clients to use your internal server instead of the default MS one.

for example:

http://sourceforge.net/projects/tttn/

http://www.redix.de/xMSN/index.php


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