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Large-scale implementation of Yahoo Messenger
shmokes:
My boss wants to put have every employee in my organization on Yahoo Messenger (that's the one he uses). Does anyone know of a way that I can set up about 50 accounts without going through the normal process 50 separate times?
edit: Oh yeah....I know that I could instruct users on how to set up their own accounts, but that's a last resort.
iwillfearnoevil:
get ready for everyone using yahoo messenger for personal chats now!
DrewKaree:
Why not teach 'em to use Trillium?
I know it's because he doesn't want to learn a "new trick" all over again, but this way you could set 'em up with AOL accounts instead of yahoo's, and they'd never know the difference.
shmokes:
--- Quote from: DrewKaree on January 31, 2005, 11:44:45 pm ---Why not teach 'em to use Trillium?
I know it's because he doesn't want to learn a "new trick" all over again, but this way you could set 'em up with AOL accounts instead of yahoo's, and they'd never know the difference.
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Will AOL allow me to streamline the process of setting up a bunch of users at once? If not I don't see why I would care to use AOL IM over Yahoo. And by the way, Drew. If you're into swiss army knife IM clients, allow me to introduce you to a little open source (I think it's open source) product called GAIM. It supports everything (even Novell Groupwise Messenger), but adds a little firefox into the mix. Are you ready.......?
Get ready........
Tabbed IM. One IM window, and each conversation gets its own tab. Nice, eh? But still doesn't solve my problem of not wanting to go through the tedious process of setting up 50 accounts one by one, whether through Yahoo or AOL.
mr.Curmudgeon:
--- Quote from: DrewKaree on January 31, 2005, 11:44:45 pm ---Why not teach 'em to use Trillium?
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I think you mean Trillian. I've been using that for years now and I've never looked back. The latest GAIM looks cool, but there are so many more plugins for Trillian, that it seems much more extensible.
But, then again, it's not open source. So there you are.
mrC