Enterprise Instant Messagaing

D'Agger

The company I work for doesn't have any instant messaging functionality so I'm looking for a quick fix for this.

I'd like to be able to IM members of our IT department, then, depending on how well it works, try to convince my boss to introduce it across the company, department by department.

The obvious solution would be pidgin but you seem to need to use a personal gmail account for this - is there any free solution to allow use of company email addresses to IM across an organization.

Office Communicator and Lync aren't options at the moment.

Would appreciate some input, TIA

GreenWolfe

A search came up with IntraMessenger but I've never used it before, so I have no idea what it's like.

EDIT: A normal XMPP server could be another option too.

http://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2011/01/deciphering-the-jibber-jabber-getting-started-with-your-own-self-hosted-xmpp-server/

D'Agger

EarthlyPangaea wrote: »

A search came up with IntraMessenger but I've never used it before, so I have no idea what it's like.

EDIT: A normal XMPP server could be another option too.

http://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2011/01/deciphering-the-jibber-jabber-getting-started-with-your-own-self-hosted-xmpp-server/

Was thinking an XMPP server would be the best option from the brief lookup of it I did

Just came across this article so will give a look into how this runs if I'm able to set it up:

http://johan.andersson.net/2009/03/16/how-i-succeeded-to-configure-pidgin-to-work-with-our-office-communications-server/

mach1982

Try http://www.jabber.org/

GreenWolfe

D'Agger wrote: »

Was thinking an XMPP server would be the best option from the brief lookup of it I did

Just came across this article so will give a look into how this runs if I'm able to set it up:

http://johan.andersson.net/2009/03/16/how-i-succeeded-to-configure-pidgin-to-work-with-our-office-communications-server/

It will be interesting to see if that works, a look at the link for SIPE says that needs Office Communications Server or Lync.

I found an Active Directory LDAP integration tutorial for Openfire, it might be useful

http://www.mreji.eu/content/openfire-active-directory-ldap-integration

D'Agger

Would prefer to use work email and keep it internal rather than using an @jabber.com extension - if I'm using jabber I may aswell be using msn/gmail chat etc. and I want everything kept in house - for that reason I will need a server which I'll have to try dig out - hopefully can use a VM for it as I don't have a physical one available right now I don't think