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by rboklewski

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Im trying to come up with a solution for an interoffice chat system. Currently we have Exchange 2003 running and was wondering if anyone knows if it is possible to use Windows Messenger 4.7 for just local area network chatting. I was fooling around with WM 4.7 and it seems that it is forcing me to create a .NET passport account, which i do not want to do. I want to keep the chatting available only to employees on my local area network. My girlfriends company has done this with exchange 2003, but she is using version 4.6 and it seems as if her settings within that version allow her to connect to her exchange account. 4.7 on the other hand seems to be lacking this option. Please let me know. Thanks, Bob.

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by churdoo

I think your girlfriend's company may be still on Exchange 2000, OR they've left an exchange 2000 server in the organization for the specific purpose of running the IM engine. Exchange 2000 had IM built in, which worked/works with the versions of Messenger from around that era, up to and including Messenger 5.0 I believe. MS yanked the IM support by EX2003, so if you have an exchange organization that's using the native IM, then you have to leave a legacy exchange 2000 server in the organization to run the IM service, or go to a 3rd party solution.

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