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Live chats Jeannine 08-10-2006
Posted by Jeannine on August 10, 2006, 3:41 pm
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My supervisor wants me to find out if people have been having live chats on
agency time. We have server 2003 and xp operating systems on the pc's. Is
there a way to search for live chat usage and check to see if they are agency
related or personal?

Posted by Frank Clark on August 10, 2006, 6:50 pm
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Hello Jeannine,

The only way to really monitor Live communication is to use live communicator
server or to have a good network sniffer on your network's WAN segment. Since
Live and most other chat programs will default to port 80 as a port of last
resort most of the time it is hard to monitor or control these programs.

From what I have experienced at customer sites, it does vary. You will usually
have a hand ful of poeple that do chat and a few of those that abuse it and
personal emails on company time also.

There are a few other measures that can be taken if you want to block it
by blocking the applications using group policies and such other measures.

Live Communication server does have connectors to most of the magor chat
services now also.

Frank Clark

> My supervisor wants me to find out if people have been having live
> chats on agency time. We have server 2003 and xp operating systems on
> the pc's. Is there a way to search for live chat usage and check to
> see if they are agency related or personal?
>



Posted by Jeannine on August 11, 2006, 9:52 am
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Thank you frank, this does help.
Jeannine

"Frank Clark" wrote:

> Hello Jeannine,
>
> The only way to really monitor Live communication is to use live communicator
> server or to have a good network sniffer on your network's WAN segment. Since
> Live and most other chat programs will default to port 80 as a port of last
> resort most of the time it is hard to monitor or control these programs.
>
> From what I have experienced at customer sites, it does vary. You will usually
> have a hand ful of poeple that do chat and a few of those that abuse it and
> personal emails on company time also.
>
> There are a few other measures that can be taken if you want to block it
> by blocking the applications using group policies and such other measures.
>
> Live Communication server does have connectors to most of the magor chat
> services now also.
>
> Frank Clark
>
> > My supervisor wants me to find out if people have been having live
> > chats on agency time. We have server 2003 and xp operating systems on
> > the pc's. Is there a way to search for live chat usage and check to
> > see if they are agency related or personal?
> >
>
>
>

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