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How To Manage Skype in the Enterprise

July 26th, 2006 · No Comments


Skype is many network manager’s nightmare. But it needn’t be. A well-known expert shows Skype.jpgyou easy ways to detect, manage, and bend the application to your will

Being the webmaster of www.SkypeTips.com and the author of ‘Skype Me!’ by Syngress Press I have often been asked "How can I manage Skype in my Enterprise?" There are several things to consider before managing any software solution in your enterprise. You must first define a policy about the type of technology you are trying to manage, in this case an instant messaging and voice application. You need to set the rules first so that everyone knows what the rules are and that need to be followed. These rules are known as your company policies. Do you allow instant messaging? Do you allow VoIP softphones? If you allow IM and VoIP do you allow file transfers?

Once you decide and document your policies, you then need a way to check and enforce it. This article focuses on how you can do that for Skype, but the advice here would work for any other similar application.

Note that we’re assuming for this article that Skype is allowed in your enterprise, and we’ll cover how to manage it, not how to thoroughly block it.

The first thing you need to do is find systems running Skype. After that, you need to change Skype configurations to match your company’s policy. We’ll cover how to block or delete Skype in another article. Networking Pipeline | How To Manage Skype in the Enterprise

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