Messenger

[Mike]

Hi, my new boss says that at her previous employer they had an instant
messenger program that was in the system tray (she says it had an icon that
looked line an "N"), and whenever she wanted to IM someone internal, she
could click on that, bring up a list of employees and send them a quick
message and see responses. She believes it was a part of Office 2003.
Unfortunately she doens't know the name of it, and I'm not sure either, as I
haven't played with IM much. Anyone know what I might be looking for?

Mike

 

[Gordon]

Hi, my new boss says that at her previous employer they had an instant
messenger program that was in the system tray (she says it had an icon
that
looked line an "N"), and whenever she wanted to IM someone internal, she
could click on that, bring up a list of employees and send them a quick
message and see responses. She believes it was a part of Office 2003.
Unfortunately she doens't know the name of it, and I'm not sure either, as
I
haven't played with IM much. Anyone know what I might be looking for?

Mike

Nothing like that in Outlook 2003 AFAIR....

 

[Kathleen Orland]

It was probably Microsoft Office Communicator.

 

[Kathleen Orland]

It is not related to Microsoft Office.

It was probably Microsoft Office Communicator.

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[Mike]

Thanks Kathleen. That is what I thought. Any suggestions for a cheap option
to do what I am describing below. I actually have Office Communication
Server 2003/2005, but don't have it installed. Do you know if it will do the
trick?

Mike

 

[Kathleen Orland]

It's installed at our parent company. Each person has to have the client,
then they have to be added to the server. I don't know more than that
because I wasn't on that particular Research & Implementation team.

I did find this:
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/...FamilyID=f1d1a947-6eff-4ac4-8878-f0a77894ac99
and this:
http://www.microsoft.com/communicationsserver/en/us/product-information.aspx