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Recently, I've come to the realization that most of my company is kind of walled off from each other. We're small but only converse on Lync when necessary or know each other. I want to change that. This is where I come to you admin\IT\coding goons. What I need: Persistent rooms. If I leave work, head home and then get back on, will I see what I missed? Local hosting. We deal with a lot of clients so we don't want information possibly sitting on someone else's server somewhere. Connection stuff can be worked around in most cases. We're mostly a Windows shop so a Windows client would be necessary as well. I looked at Slack but not sure if they're going to fit our needs with the local hosting option.
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# ? Apr 13, 2015 20:42 |
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# ? Apr 26, 2024 14:56 |
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Lync can do persistent rooms - so that can help in the meantime.
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# ? Apr 13, 2015 20:44 |
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What don't you like about Lync? You could look at HipChat Server: https://www.hipchat.com/server
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# ? Apr 13, 2015 21:15 |
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Maneki Neko posted:What don't you like about Lync? It isn't that I don't like Lync. It's that it keeps getting put off for other work. The easier I can get something set up, the better basically.
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# ? Apr 13, 2015 21:41 |
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OpenFire does these things and you can use any XMPP client although some things work best with their own Java based client.
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# ? Apr 16, 2015 06:06 |
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If you dont plan on using Lync 2013 for enterprise voice/SIP trunking, it is very simple to set up. The deployment wizard and topology builder is very nice to work with.
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# ? Apr 16, 2015 10:18 |
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thebigcow posted:OpenFire does these things and you can use any XMPP client although some things work best with their own Java based client. This. For a long time XMPP was and sometimes still is the norm for instant messaging around Businesses, at least from what I've experienced. OpenFire is the easiest server to setup too, with a full web control panel and is able to run on Windows as well as Linux. I've had issues connecting to openfire servers with the Pidgin client though, otherwise its a great solution for creating private, organised and controllable instant messaging networks. Definitely read up on its features and try it out.
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# ? Apr 16, 2015 23:37 |
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# ? Apr 26, 2024 14:56 |
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The other option for self-hosted Slack alternatives is https://github.com/sdelements/lets-chat and those will work with LDAP / Active Directory / Kerberos. I'm strongly considering rolling this out for my team because our corporate chat option explicitly forbids persistent chatrooms and chat history persisting on-disk. We explicitly paid Cisco to remove options from Jabber that the rest of the Fortune 100 uses somehow (including a bunch of financials, wtf), so our security team is completely bonkers if you ask me. Lync didn't work for us probably because Microsoft asked for too much is my suspicion.
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