You can 'enable' on a per user basis PIC (Public IM Communications).
You an also archive on a per user basis as well.  Our Security is
still deciding on our policy but I suspect those with PIC will be
archived.

Steven

On Tue, Dec 8, 2009 at 4:16 PM, Kurt Buff <[email protected]> wrote:
> I'm a big fan of keeping internal corporate communications inside the
> corporation, and monitoring the rest - that's what email archiving is
> for. If we were to use federation, I think I'd want something like
> that for IM as well, so that's nice stuff to know.
>
> Thanks.
>
> On Tue, Dec 8, 2009 at 16:10, Steven Peck <[email protected]> wrote:
>> Public IM federation with AOL and MSN now no longer requires a per
>> user license.  Yahoo still does.  Text Archiving can be built into it.
>>  It has a subset of Live Meeting features as well.
>>
>> note:  I am in the midle of migrating from LCS2005 to OCS2007r2.  LCS
>> was merely chat based, OCS is multi-media based.
>>
>> Further notes:  If you integrate OCS with your telecom system (i.e.
>> it's on the list) you can even do remote phone calls through your
>> communicator client (no vpn needed).  I can't wait to test the OCS
>> version.  LCS 'worked' internally with some client issues but
>> Microsoft told us that would happen before we tested it anyway.
>>
>> On Tue, Dec 8, 2009 at 3:30 PM, Kurt Buff <[email protected]> wrote:
>>> OK. That's quite interesting. Adding that to the list of things to consider.
>>>
>>> On Tue, Dec 8, 2009 at 15:03, Michael B. Smith <[email protected]> 
>>> wrote:
>>>> You know, we don't use the web client. I believe it supports desktop 
>>>> sharing, but not videoconferencing.
>>>>
>>>> On the other hand, you can easily federate with the public MSN Messenger 
>>>> servers and your folks can use that to join your conferences. There are 
>>>> also public federation points for AOL and Yahoo.
>>>>
>>>> -----Original Message-----
>>>> From: Kurt Buff [mailto:[email protected]]
>>>> Sent: Tuesday, December 08, 2009 5:27 PM
>>>> To: NT System Admin Issues
>>>> Subject: Re: A new challenge for me...
>>>>
>>>> Forgot to ask...
>>>>
>>>> Does the web client do videoconferencing?
>>>>
>>>> Kurt
>>>>
>>>> On Tue, Dec 8, 2009 at 13:57, Michael B. Smith <[email protected]> 
>>>> wrote:
>>>>> No. OCS is heavily AD dependent. The Edge server just protects the inside 
>>>>> from the outside, similar to the edge server concept in Exchange.
>>>>>
>>>>> -----Original Message-----
>>>>> From: Kurt Buff [mailto:[email protected]]
>>>>> Sent: Tuesday, December 08, 2009 4:56 PM
>>>>> To: NT System Admin Issues
>>>>> Subject: Re: A new challenge for me...
>>>>>
>>>>> That makes me feel better.
>>>>>
>>>>> Is this amenable to setting up a standalone environment in the DMZ, so I 
>>>>> don't have to tie it up with AD?
>>>>>
>>>>> I'm currently googling like mad, while having this conversation with 
>>>>> y'all.
>>>>>
>>>>> Kurt
>>>>>
>>>>> On Tue, Dec 8, 2009 at 13:51, Michael B. Smith <[email protected]> 
>>>>> wrote:
>>>>>> No. it's a different kind of edge server.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> -----Original Message-----
>>>>>> From: Kurt Buff [mailto:[email protected]]
>>>>>> Sent: Tuesday, December 08, 2009 4:49 PM
>>>>>> To: NT System Admin Issues
>>>>>> Subject: Re: A new challenge for me...
>>>>>>
>>>>>> New territory here. From what I've read, an Edge server normally refers 
>>>>>> to an Exchange environment. Is what's being proposed here an extension 
>>>>>> of my Exchange 2003 environment?
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Kurt
>>>>>>
>>>>>> On Tue, Dec 8, 2009 at 13:30, Steven Peck <[email protected]> wrote:
>>>>>>> Yes.  Setup OCS2007r2.  Then setup an Edge server.  The Edge server
>>>>>>> will do Audio/Video conferencing.  Microsoft strongly suggests you
>>>>>>> haev an ISA server in front but you can do it without an ISA server.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> On Tue, Dec 8, 2009 at 1:26 PM, Kurt Buff <[email protected]> wrote:
>>>>>>>> Unknown. I have zero experience or knowledge of it.
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> Will it work in a DMZ? The reason I ask is that for the folks out
>>>>>>>> of the country, the CEO is likely to want to videoconference with
>>>>>>>> them while they are at their homes - that is, the CEO would be in
>>>>>>>> the office, the others at their homes off-hours, at least some times.
>>>>>>>> Thus, they won't have a VPN connection - we have a SonicWall SSL
>>>>>>>> VPN unit here, which is not really amenable to forwarding a
>>>>>>>> chat/video session..
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> Kurt
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> On Tue, Dec 8, 2009 at 13:02, Don Guyer <[email protected]> 
>>>>>>>> wrote:
>>>>>>>>> Will Office Communication Server take care of that?
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> Don Guyer
>>>>>>>>> Systems Engineer - Information Services Prudential, Fox &
>>>>>>>>> Roach/Trident Group
>>>>>>>>> 431 W. Lancaster Avenue
>>>>>>>>> Devon, PA 19333
>>>>>>>>> Direct: (610) 993-3299
>>>>>>>>> Fax: (610) 650-5306
>>>>>>>>> [email protected]
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> -----Original Message-----
>>>>>>>>> From: Kurt Buff [mailto:[email protected]]
>>>>>>>>> Sent: Tuesday, December 08, 2009 3:58 PM
>>>>>>>>> To: NT System Admin Issues
>>>>>>>>> Subject: A new challenge for me...
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> Our new CEO want her direct reports to use Live Messenger accounts
>>>>>>>>> for IM/chat, and a couple of them (out of the country) to have web
>>>>>>>>> cam conferencing.
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> This, of course, means poking holes in the firewall and installing
>>>>>>>>> the client, both of which I'm not happy about. Does anyone have
>>>>>>>>> some arguments as to why this isn't a good idea?
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> Along with that, does anyone have thoughts on something I could
>>>>>>>>> install (probably in a DMZ) to provide this service?
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> Open Source is definitely not out of the question, as far as I'm
>>>>>>>>> concerned, but commercial is fine too.
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> Kurt
>>>>>>>>>
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>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
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>>>>>>>
>>>>>>
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>>>>>>
>>>>>>
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>>>>>
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>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~
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>>>>
>>>> ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ 
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>>>>
>>>>
>>>> ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~
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>>>
>>> ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~
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>>>
>>>
>>
>> ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~
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>>
>>
>
> ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~
> ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/>  ~
>
>

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