How can we remove .net passport option from win msgr

Jonathan, et al,

We're running Windows messenger 5.0 over exchange server
for intranet use only. Recently however, we discovered
users can set up the .net passport to communicate outside
of our network. For security reasons we need to disable
this ability completely. Is there anyway to gray out
the .net passport option? We can't just block port 80
because that's open for our internet traffic. Any ideas???
Thanks
Stacy

Greetings Stacy,

Yes you can -- you just need to enable the policy in the registry to do this, as in this .reg
file:
http://messenger.jonathankay.com/dow...changeonly.reg

You have to close and restart Messenger to see the change.
____________________________________________
Jonathan Kay
Microsoft MVP - Windows Messenger/MSN Messenger
Associate Expert
http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/expertzone/
Messenger Resources - http://messenger.jonathankay.com

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Jonathan, et al,

We're running Windows messenger 5.0 over exchange server
for intranet use only. Recently however, we discovered
users can set up the .net passport to communicate outside
of our network. For security reasons we need to disable
this ability completely. Is there anyway to gray out
the .net passport option? We can't just block port 80
because that's open for our internet traffic. Any ideas???
Thanks
Stacy

Thanks Jonathan. You're awesome.
-----Original Message-----
Greetings Stacy,

Yes you can -- you just need to enable the policy in the
registry to do this, as in this .reg
file:
http://messenger.jonathankay.com/dow...exchangeonly.r
eg

You have to close and restart Messenger to see the
change.
____________________________________________
Jonathan Kay
Microsoft MVP - Windows Messenger/MSN Messenger
Associate Expert
http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/expertzone/
Messenger Resources - http://messenger.jonathankay.com

wrote in message
...
Jonathan, et al,

We're running Windows messenger 5.0 over exchange
server
for intranet use only. Recently however, we discovered
users can set up the .net passport to communicate
outside
of our network. For security reasons we need to disable
this ability completely. Is there anyway to gray out
the .net passport option? We can't just block port 80
because that's open for our internet traffic. Any
ideas???
Thanks
Stacy


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