Re: Using Messenger on an internal LAN?

Greetings Andrew,

I'm afraid not -- you'd need to have a local Exchange 2000 IM server or Live Communications
Server to do local messaging.

You might consider third party products for this purpose, like LanTalk:
http://www.lantalk.net/lantalk-xp/

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"Andrew" <Andrew@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
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> Is it possible to use Windows Messenger on an internal LAN with Outlook
> Exchange address book rather than through internet with a passport?
>
> I have also been trying Netmeeting which I know doesn't seem to be very
> popular now but looks good for our purposes. Anyone know whether this can be
> set to pick up an Exchange address book also?
>
> Thanks
> Andrew