I work for a small company of about 250 people at 10 different sites in a small region. A new policy just came down preventing the use of IM's and management wants me to monitor who is using it and to prevent them from doing it. I don't necessarily agree with this as I know some employees use MSN effectively in dealing with customers, but it's not under my control. With the million other projects going on, there is no way I can keep up on this on a workstation specific basis. I'm still entry level IT and I have a few questions. We run on MS Server 2003.
1. How does your business address IM?
2. How does IM work? I blocked ports but this doesn't seem to work. Does it run through proxy?
3. Is there a way to limit how MSN is used? Is it possible to prevent file sharing, yet allow chat?
4. What have you done to not allow IM?
Thanks!
2006-07-12
06:03:58
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