Messaging program that uses AD?

Carbon Rod · 11th July 2012, 11:14 AM

Hi All,

at work here we had a few users using windows messenger to communicate around the buildings and from site to site (bit wanky but they like it and need it)

anyway - msn recently spat out a message saying something like 'cannot login because your version of messenger is too old'

okay, so i updated it - that introduced a number of more severe errors. a lot of system services started playing up.. so msn is out of the question.. i need an alternative.

maybe something that used AD for logins? and before you post: google has failed me.

Thanks!

Zyklone · 11th July 2012, 11:24 AM

Microsoft Lync?

Sounds pretty much exactly what your looking for.

Carbon Rod · 11th July 2012, 12:26 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Zyklone

Microsoft Lync?

Sounds pretty much exactly what your looking for.

it does look good.

probably should have mentioned that we are currently moving office and also upgrading servers so i don't see paying for anything at the moment is an option..

do you know of anything that is free?

Annihilator69 · 17th July 2012, 8:39 PM

Spark, give it a go

http://www.igniterealtime.org/projects/spark/

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