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We have been using the Enterprise version of Openfire in Radiology for the past couple months now, for use by our IT staff. It is integrated with our Active Directory, and has been working great but not without some bugs. It's nice because it's encrypted, and the traffic is kept inside our network. It's been pretty useful so far, we keep a standing chat room open for discussion, and since Jabber is open people can use any client they want, including Blackberries, etc. We have also installed the IM gateway which allows you to message other IM networks (eg. AIM, MSN) from within the same client. The Enterprise version has some very nice logging, auditing and filtering options which can be important in our area. Our domain (rad.msu.edu) is federated (with proper DNS XMPP SRV records) so if you would like to say hi, you can join our standing conference room at [log in to unmask] Joe -- Joe Mesterhazy UNIX Administrator, RHCE MSU Department of Radiology 133 Radiology Building (517) 355-0120 ext. 298 -----Original Message----- From: MSU Network Administrators Group [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Ray Hernandez Sent: Wednesday, October 17, 2007 2:58 PM To: [log in to unmask] Subject: Re: [MSUNAG] IT Collaboration Tools Since we are talking about collaboration, is there any interest in "corporate" instant messaging? Our department has expressed interest in the past in having instant messaging that would be internal to our group. We haven't actually made the jump yet, but I have played around with it. We have toyed around with the idea of rolling out a Jabber server. The software we liked was Openfire(http://www.igniterealtime.org/ projects/openfire/index.jsp). It has support for LDAP and Kerberos, which makes it n easy fit for us since we could use our MSU kerberos service for authentication. The nice thing about Openfire is that it can interface with other Jabber-compatible service providers so you can add people from outside the university to your buddy list and it takes care of the rest of the mojo. I'd love to see a campus messaging service like that, but maybe external providers are sufficient enough for our campus. --Ray