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Hugo Hernandez Network Administrator INSTEON Reliable, Expandable, Brilliant Remote Control www.insteon.com<http://www.insteon.com> Smarthome Home Automation Superstore www.smarthome.com<http://www.smarthome.com> From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Richard McClary Sent: Friday, August 22, 2014 7:07 AM To: [email protected] Cc: Richard Granatir Subject: [NTSysADM] Instant messaging w/"broadcasting" ability Greetings! A few years ago, we were a Lotus Domino shop. In addition to Notes for email, we had IBM Sametime for instant messaging. Sametime allowed our staff to broadcast an announcement to all staff or to selected groups (defined in Domino) within the staff. A couple of years ago, we moved from Lotus to hosted Exchange. Instant messaging became Microsoft Office Communicator Service and/or Lync. We lost our ability to broadcast announcements, etc to mail distribution groups within Exchange. (Apparently, individuals can create their own IM groups and broadcast to those, but getting each staff member to do so is simply not going to happen.) Our poison control center staff needs to be able to broadcast announcements, requests for consulting, etc. One of our former employees developed a Java application for doing this. With numerous Java updates, this application has been breaking on some workstations. (It broke on mine nearly a year ago, but I've been able to do without it. Not so most of our staff!) Any recommendations for an instant messaging application which will allow announcements, etc to be broadcast to centrally-defined groups and not interfere with MS Lync/OCS, Exchange, etc? Thanks! -- Richard D. McClary Jr Infrastructure Architect, Information Technology Group American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals 1717 S. Philo Rd, Ste 36 Urbana, IL 61802 Email: [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> Phone: 217-337-9761 Cell: 217-417-1182 Fax: 217-337-9761 URL: www.aspca.org<http://www.aspca.org/> The information contained in this e-mail, and any attachments hereto, is from The American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals(r) (ASPCA(r)) and is intended only for use by the addressee(s) named herein and may contain legally privileged and/or confidential information. If you are not the intended recipient of this e-mail, you are hereby notified that any dissemination, distribution, copying or use of the contents of this e-mail, and any attachments hereto, is strictly prohibited. If you have received this e-mail in error, please immediately notify me by reply email and permanently delete the original and any copy of this e-mail and any printout thereof. ====================================== CONFIDENTIALITY NOTICE: This e-mail message is intended only for the person(s) or organization(s) to whom or which it is addressed and may contain information which is confidential and privileged. The unauthorized use, copying, distribution, or disclosure of this e-mail or any of its contents by anyone other than the intended recipient is unauthorized and unlawful. If you have received this e-mail in error, please notify the sender immediately and destroy all copies of this transmission. Thank you. http://www.smarthome.com/
