[windows2000] Re: MS Messenger
- From: Berny Stapleton <berny@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: windows2000@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Thu, 8 Mar 2007 14:16:26 -0000 (GMT)
What does LCS do for you..... Let me see...
Cons:
- Costs an absolute fortune, each different bit of functionality is
another license
- Monthly charges for external internet access
- Resource utilisation is higher as there is more components
Pros:
- Scalability - If I had to deploy something for a 90,000+ people I must
admit I would certainly be more inclined to go for LCS
- Video and telephony integration
- Integration with Outlook and Sharepoint portal servers giving user
status awareness in application.
- Logging to a SQL database. So if you wanted to, you could write a web
page to pull the data out
If I was going to deploy something for up to about 5,000 people, I would
get wildfire, stick it in a VM, set it up and forget about it. Keep an eye
out when there is new versions and that's it.
Berny
> Berny Stapleton <> wrote on Thursday, March 08, 2007 2:22 PM:
>
> Interesting! I'll look into it.
>
> What would Microsoft Live Communications Server do for me? We don't use
> Exchange or anything, only the Outlook clients.
>
>
>> My personal favourite for messenger solutions is a jabber based solution
>> which can connect out to the rest of the internet.
>>
>> It's called Wildfire. It's free, open source, but it's dual licensed if
>> you want it to be a commercial solution too, it can be.
>>
>> http://www.jivesoftware.org/wildfire/
>>
>> I use it with the Pandion client.
>>
>> http://www.pandion.be/
>>
>> This gives you everything you want, I have written docs on it for a
>> previous version, and it does integrated authentication, can be
>> controlled
>> by NT groups, has LDAP connections for connection back into Active
>> Directory. Personally, I think it's a great solution. I have implemented
>> Microsoft Live Communications Server, and this is equal in quality as
>> far
>> as I am concerned. The only big thing that LCS does that Wildfire
>> doesn't
>> do is logging straight into a SQL database. LCS also integrates into
>> Active Directory users and computers, but as far as I can see if the
>> helpdesk staff know what groups can be used for turning on Instant
>> Messaging, what more do you need?
>>
>> Berny
>>
>>
>>> Hi all,
>>>
>>> Due to popular demand at our department (and the boss pressing me on
>>> it...)
>>> I've taken up testing out this new-fangled thing called Instant
>>> Messaging
>>> (IM).
>>>
>>> First I looked at was MSN Messenger v7.5, which looks ok, but it's
>>> chockfull of ads and other irritating stuff. Then found on Wikipedia
>>> there's a Live Messenger v8beta (haven't tried it yet). Yet another
>>> I've
>>> found and that looks interesting is Gaim, capable of several protocols,
>>> including Jabber which apparentely supports group conferences,
>>> something
>>> Messenger does not AFAIK.
>>>
>>> I'm a bit confused though about MS Messenger. I don't quite see the
>>> difference between them. Anybody care to explain this to me? Or point
>>> me
>>> to good place for this.
>>>
>>> Otherwise, anything or any gotchas' I should be aware of when dealing
>>> with
>>> IM (except for viruses and stuff)?
>>>
>>> TIA.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> BW,
>>>
>>> Sorin
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