Re: FW: Skype allowance

[Bruce Curtis <bruce.curtis () NDSU EDU>]

On Jun 7, 2007, at 3:18 PM, Martin Radford wrote:

> I'd be interested to hear whether anyone has looked at the business
> version of Skype: <http://www.skype.com/business/>

  We have done some initial testing of the business version and with
the registry change the clients we tested did not become supernodes
(which was one of our problems with Skype, supernodes generated lots
of flows and put additional strain on our network monitoring boxes).


> Skype for Business is supplied as an MSI and can be managed by Group
> Policy, according to their site.  Their Guide for Network
> Administrators can be found here:
> <http://www.skype.com/security/guide-for-network-admins-30beta.pdf>
>
> I've been asked to deploy Skype to a couple of training rooms over the
> summer, but haven't yet had a chance to look at it.
>
> Martin
> - --
> Martin Radford  (Martin.Radford () bristol ac uk)
> Personal Computer Systems Team
> Information Systems & Computing
> University of Bristol Information Services
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Bruce Curtis                         bruce.curtis () ndsu edu
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North Dakota State University