Messaging on Win2K Pro

[Dave]

We put in around 150 Win2K Pro clients on our NT domain
here at the school district. With the old clients (all
Win95 and Win98), there was the WinPopup program that the
kids were using to message each other during class.
I renamed WinPopup so they don't see it anymore. Now they
are using a similar program on the Win2K clients. Is
there a way to effectively stop this at the server level?
I was told that I can disable the Messenger Service - is
that on the server side, or the client side? I see
Messenger Service running on my client...

Thanks in advance!

Dave

 

[Doug Sherman [MVP]]

By default the messenger service is enabled to start automatically in Win2k
Pro. You want to disable this on the clients. You can do so through the
Services applet in administrative tools on each client machine. If you have
a lot of clients, you could stop it with a login script:

net stop messenger

Or, you could use Group Policy to disable it - Computer
Configuration/Windows Settings/Security Settings/System Services

Doug Sherman
MCSE Win2k/NT4.0, MCSA, MCP+I, MVP