Bill- You need an appliance. I know Symantec makes one as a previous employer imposed this upon us. Depending on your FW/Proxy environment that vendor might also make a plugin or have a 3rd party addin to it for this.
A better solution would be something like OCS with Archiving and Federation w/ MSN, etc., IMO. Thanks, Brian Desmond [email protected] c - 312.731.3132 From: Bill Songstad [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Monday, May 10, 2010 4:52 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: log Windows Live Messenger conversations My office uses WLM for communication to supplement email and telephones. That battle is lost. But the next battle is to log communications through that medium for legal purposes. My Google Fu has been less than encouraging as the popular opinion is that since there are no GPOs for WLM and since the reg keys needed are encrypted and unpredictably variable, it wouldn't be possible to turn on logging with Group Policy. So what I am asking is: Does anybody know how to, or have a strategy to administratively turn on logging for Windows Messenger? Or will I just have to disable it if we ever become involved in a lawsuit? What I need to do is turn on message history and prevent users from turning it off. Ideally this would be something I could turn on or off as needed. Any insight would be appreciated, -Bill ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~
