I remember when Exchange 2000 first came out, IM worked intermmittently. Then it seems they made it better with service packs. I was able to make IM work most of the time.
It works OK for a single company. It gets complicated when it comes to hosting, mainly because different customers have all kinds of OSes and clients and firewalls and proxies, etc. I was able to make it work predictably though for a hypothetical generic customer based on a Windows 2000 client. But to make it work, it's like a parade of planets - everything has to align perfectly in AD, DNS, etc. But we never offered it to customers. I was also disappointed that IM did not take advantage of FE/BE topology. It will connect to FE, but FE does not proxy it back to the BE. Instead the FE says "here, the BE is over there, go there and connect to it" -----Original Message----- From: Gagrani, Kishore [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, October 16, 2002 1:59 PM To: Exchange Discussions Subject: RE: Instant Messaging Oh !! what a timing . I finally got it working for all of my offices and learned the hale lot about it on how to get it to work , NAT, DNS , Firewall , PROXY, Fixed ports , Polling ...., really it took me a full month to get it working for all the offices including field offices in US and Europe . There is a good white paper on IM's fixed ports and polling feature on Microsoft's web site, that really helped me a lot. Kishore -----Original Message----- From: Vincent Avallone [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, October 16, 2002 11:42 AM To: Exchange Discussions Subject: Instant Messaging Before I go crazy, has anyone ever gotten Instant Messaging to work with Exchange 2000? This is like the third time I've tried on two different emails severs and I always get this Signing into Communications service failed try again later. I have restarted WWW on the server and triple checked the IM server settings. Anyway, please help. Thanks to all -- Vincent Avallone iBiquity Digital (410) 872-1535 _________________________________________________________________ List posting FAQ: http://www.swinc.com/resource/exch_faq.htm Archives: http://www.swynk.com/sitesearch/search.asp To unsubscribe: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Exchange List admin: [EMAIL PROTECTED] _________________________________________________________________ List posting FAQ: http://www.swinc.com/resource/exch_faq.htm Archives: http://www.swynk.com/sitesearch/search.asp To unsubscribe: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Exchange List admin: [EMAIL PROTECTED] _________________________________________________________________ List posting FAQ: http://www.swinc.com/resource/exch_faq.htm Archives: http://www.swynk.com/sitesearch/search.asp To unsubscribe: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Exchange List admin: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
