Custom user policy MS Messenger

[loic.robertson]

We want to allow our employees to use MS Messenger, but only to chat to
authorised contacts - i.e. our business contacts rather than their
friends.

Is there a way to do this and to control the authorised list of
contacts by a centralised administrator?

Thanks for any help anyone can offer...

 

[Jonathan Kay [MVP]]

Greetings,

This is a common request but there is no way to create a white or blacklist of contacts. MSN
Messenger is considered a consumer product, there are no GPO settings and no enterprise-level
functionality of any kind.

For functionality like you're describing, depending on the size they might be interested in
deploying Live Communications Server (http://office.microsoft.com/livecomm) or simply
implementing something like IMLogic to handle IM security/policies.

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