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ejabberd send group message

I have ejabberd setup with a few shared rosters ("groups"). I need to be able to send messages to the entire group. I was able to do this with the built-in announce mod by sending a message to jabber....
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Kafka Producer & Consumer hosts

Would Kafka Producer & Consumer hosts can be same. Suppose if I've producers like host1,host2 & host3. Can I use same host1, host2 & host3 as consumers? What are the consequences/...
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Can any of the popular IM networks work like this?

Joe, Jack and Jill use IM as a communication medium among themselves in Company A, where they work, and with customers and partners around the world. No goofing off here -- it's a legitimate work tool....
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What is correct way to send GET query with access_token to the Matrix Synapse server with CURL ?

What is correct way to send GET query with access_token to the Matrix Synapse server? curl -k -G -X 'GET' -H 'X-Auth-Token: MDAyMGxvY2F0aW9uIG1hdHJpeC5qZG1ncm91cC5wb' -H 'Content-type: application/...
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Sending Message To User From Remote Computers

I have 4 networks. 10.22.227.0\24, 10.28.43.0\24, 10.0.3.0\24, 10.0.6.0\24. In total there is some where around 250 users. What i would like to be able to do is send the user a message from my ...
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Strange Lync 2010 Issue

I am working on troubleshooting a Lync 2010 deployment and have hit a snag. I have just about everything working except for the external meeting piece and don't really know where to look. ...
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Lync Group Installation - Certificates

Lync Server: Server 2008r2 standard sp1, Lync server 2010 Lync Edge: Server 2008r2 standard sp1 Server running SQL: Server Standard 2008, running SQL Express 2008 I believe, can't tell for sure ...
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Office Communicator 2007 (MOC): How to make chat history visible to newcomers

How can someone who joins an existing Microsoft Communicator chat see the history of what has gone before? For example: Larry: [describes problem] Moe: [enhances problem] Curly: We should ask Shemp ...
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Require authentication for IRC connections (InspIRCd)

We're trying to move our team chat from Skype to a private IRC server (InspIRCd) and we need to require some sort of authentication to prevent public access. I know we could have a global server ...
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How can I get users to auto join a conference at login on my xmpp server?

I want to setup a local XMPP server, and I want each user to automatically to enter an important conference when they login, or at least get sent an invitations, but I can't figure out how. Can I do ...
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Nginx & long poll: Best practices to reduce memory and bandwidth footprint

I use nginx in this mode for BOSH and chat clients along with gzip. location ~* /http-bind/ { proxy_buffering off; keepalive_timeout 55; access_log off; tcp_nodelay on; ...
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Identifying chat apps being used via gmail accounts

Besides being the MD, I am also the Gmail administrator for a small firm and have concerns as to which chatt apps on the iphones, etc that employees are using linking their gmail accounts for ...
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ejabberd ACL for specific chatrooms

Is it possible (if yes, how) to implement per-chatroom deny/allow styled ACL for users or groups in ejaberd?
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Broadcast message to AD users possible?

I have SBS 08 and users with XP/Vista/7. I'd like to know if it's possible to broadcast a message to AD users while they are logged in the domain(for example to told users a reboot will be done, ...
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Linux Chat Server Design [closed]

I develop an PHP/Ajax based live chat system and host in simple Virtualmin Based CentOS server, I want to know what type of changes we do in server that make our chatting process fast.
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Is the Ejabberd default DB suited for large cluster deployments? [closed]

Im setting up a cluster of Ejabberd nodes to to host 1M+ active connections. Is the internal Mnesia database on every cluster the best solution in terms of reliability and load balancing, or would ...
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Real-time chat with +1M users distributed backend solution on AWS [closed]

I Need to deploy a backend solution for a mass messaging iPhone app. Based on coverage previous apps we have deployed it is safe to assume we will get over 1 million signups in the first week and that ...
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Lync Pool discovery issue in SCOM 2007 R2

Trying to get my Lync topology to show up in the SCOM 2007 R2 console. So far, I've done the following: Deployed the SCOM agent to the Lync servers Enabled Agent Proxy on all Front End servers in ...
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Corporate IM with video that actually works, suggestions? [closed]

Does anyone here have a suggestion for a cross-platform IM solution which will work with VoIP/video on both Windows (XP and 7) and Mac OS X from 10.4 and upwards? Right now, we're in a kind of mixed ...
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Enable user registration - eJabberd

I am a complete n00b to configuring Jabber/XMPP servers and I am hoping to get some help getting set up. I have done all of this and installed pidgin. I seem to be able set up my "admin-user" in ...
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Lync 2010 Group Chat Logging

My group is rolling out Lync 2010 Group Chat and it seems from the documentation that the Lync Server does not log actual conversation history for Group Chat. I find this suspect because if ...
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IM and File Transfers Integrated With VoIP

I have an Asterisk box serving an office of people. I'd like to provide instant messaging and file sharing capabilities alongside the voice and video capabilities provided by Asterisk (ala Windows ...
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Find out why Linux chat script for ppp connection fails

I'm having trouble making a ppp connection over a GSM Modem. The Platform is an ARM based embedded device, running Debian Linux 5. The scripts worked before with this device, but not with the new ...
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Does ejabberd support audio/video calls?

My server is running Ubuntu and I have installed ejabberd as one of the famous xmpp servers in order to organize chatting system. Ejabbered is working fine with text messages, but I would like to know ...
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Our own custom IRC network in our Linux server instance

Our company needs a secure chat server. Typically a closed, protected and secure IRC network. Is it possible to set it up just like we set apache or any other server software on our own server ...
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Best lightweight linux IRC server for a team

I'm looking for suggestions for an extremely lightweight IRC server for linux. It does not need a bunch of features or bloat. It's is for just our internal team (50- people), and small footprint is ...
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Is there an IRC server/client that supports integration with Active Directory?

I want to create an IRC server (or some other chat server) for our developers to be able to communicate in a chat room style environment. After doing some searching, I haven't found any solution that ...
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Internal Use Chat/Desktop Platform

I did some looking, but I didn't see a SF question directly related to this. I need to find a platform for internal/LAN use only for chat and desktop sharing. We got a lot people having to get up and ...
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StackExchange/campfire like chat app or server [closed]

So I spend a lot of time at the Comms Room here in the SF chat, and I absolutely love the interface. It's a proprietary software, so, anyone know any open or free alternative that even begins to look ...
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OCS 2007 R2 Group Chat Client takes a long time to start

We are using OCS 2007 R2 with Group Chat. The Group Chat client starts up quickly on our Windows 7 boxes, but takes over two minutes (!) to start on our Windows XP SP3 boxes. The July 2010 hotfix has ...
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Video Chat going through a server

I'm trying to build a simple video chat client on the mac as a little project and I want it to be able to go over my own little server and arrive at the other end (so going over the internet rather ...
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VOIP and IM communication without a server

Typical enterprise VOIP solutions like MS Comm Server require a server computer to handle communications. Is there any program that can do it Peer-2-Peer (P2P) without a server, and directly call and ...
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Including email, IMs, configs, etc. in documentation or notes

The shop I work in is pretty laid-back. We're on a documentation kick, only because historically we've been very bad with it. We do a lot of our brainstorming in face-to-face meetings, and also do a ...
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Intranet Chat Server - for closed office network

We have a closed office network, and our company has grown to the point where we could use some chat capabilities in house. Preferably, the server should be able to support protocols that could enable ...
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What are the best LAN communication systems? [closed]

What are the best messaging and VOIP systems for medium to large corporate networks? What have you found to be the best in your experience and why? It should support: Instant messaging Video and ...
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System architecture of Cam Chat Websites (tinychat, omegle, cam4)

Do anybody know what kind of system architecture is behind Websites like tinychat, omegle, cam4, chatroulette? And how much bandwith is needed per connection? If I'm not wrong they use some video ...
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Open source jabber based website "live chat" / "live help" system?

I don't know if this belongs on SF, SU or SO... let's try SF first. I'm looking for a "live help" system for website which uses Jabber/XMPP as a backend... so that website visitors could click a "...
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Will OCS work for instant messaging between two independent networks?

My understanding is that Office Communicator (and OCS in general) is targeted at a non-public network such as you would find within a typical large Co. Can it be used for instant messaging between ...
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How to disable user unsetting chat history via Google Talk

We are using Google Apps standard edition with 50 users and as an administrator I would like all users (mostly teenage students) chat information / history to be stored in their chats folder in their ...
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How do I apply a patch for IBM Lotus Sametime Connect 8.0.2?

I am packaging Sametime client 8.0.2 for deployment. I have received the binaries from our Notes Admins. They have also given me the following zip file along with original installation: "sametime....
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Blocking chat in gmail website with SonicWALL TZ 180 Enhanced OS

We have a SonicWALL TZ 180 with Enhanced OS. We want to block the chat web app within gmail's site, but not block the whole gmail site. I've turned IPS on, and all IM to prevent. Any ideas? I've ...
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Looking for a centrally managed instant messaging system

We have a small school with classrooms across a few buildings. There are currently no phones going into each room but each teacher does have a school laptop and Internet. We need a way to instantly ...
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How to block gmail web chat with squid and iptables?

Is it possible to block just the web chat service and still use email service using iptables and squid or using either one of them?
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Monitorable Inter-company Messaging and XMPP Server on FreeBSD

We are looking to give access to some of our employees to chat with each other - however we are worried about them abusing the privilege and chatting we friends outside work. We have decided to deploy ...
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Track messenger messages in ISA server?

As all of my internet traffic goes through an ISA server, is it possible to extract the content of IM messages from the logs? It's ISA 2004 running on 2K3 Server. Thanks in advance.
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Deploy iChat setups to multiple users

I just set up an iChat server on a Leopard Server. I'm planning on testing it out with a small group of people, but I'd like to set it up remotely so I can just tell them to "Open iChat" instead of ...
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Can users connect to Moodle Chat with an IRC client?

Moodle is an interesting Learning Management System. One of the tools it offers is a chat session. I don't know how it works under the hood, but the provided front-end is a weak javascript tool. Is ...
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Instant Messaging Server [closed]

There is increasing interest in my company for an internal IM implementation. What commercial or OSS products are currently available? are they easy to setup? does they have proprietary clients? any ...