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office IM and webcam

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ZippyDan

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I want to setup an intra-office IM system that should also support web cameras. This chat system would be a private, closed system, only used on the LAN, VPN, or traveling workers. Something that could optionally integrate with Windows Domain authentication would be neat too. Something free/open source would be even better. But I'd put more of a premium on a simple, uncluttered interface and no ads.

I thought about just signing everyone up for MSN Messenger but:

1. I don't want to encourage people to be using IMs at work. I only want other workers to be on people's contact lists.
2. Most of the popular IMs are far too bloated and have pretty but cluttered UIs, whereas I am looking for something simple and professional.

Any recommendations?
 
It sounds like what you are looking for is Office Communicator, which runs off of Office Communications Server: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft_Office_Communications_Server

It's certainly not cheap, but it is definitely is the best way of doing inter-office communications (apart from making people actually come to work and have face to face meetings).

The big open source alternative to OCS is XMPP: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Extensible_Messaging_and_Presence_Protocol

In my experience with XMPP, it doesn't work very reliably. But that was with jabber which is what XMPP used to be; maybe it's better now.
 
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