Enterprise Compatibility with Skype 3.0 Beta for Windows
By
Scott Davison on November 16, 2006 in Product news.
The latest releases of [Skype 3.0 Beta for Windows]( http://www.skype.com/download/skype/windows/skype3beta.html) and [Skype 3.0 Beta for Windows – business version with MSI](http://www.skype.com/download/skype/windows/business.html) make Skype Enterprise Compatible and address one of the main concerns previously expressed by administrators of corporate and enterprise networks.
With this release of Skype, IT Administrators now have much greater control over the behaviour of Skype in a corporate network.
If you manage networks that support Skype users, read our updated [network administrator’s guide]( http://www.skype.com/security/guide-for-network-admins-30beta.pdf) It contains configuration and operational information relevant to IT managers and network administrators.
Setting up group policies
As of Release 3.0, Skype now supports the use of Group Policies, which provides system and network administrators with the most convenient and reliable way to support centralized management of policy settings for Skype clients across an enterprise.
Skype policy settings set the behavior of the Skype client for a given set of targeted users or computers. Skype has been policy-enabled meaning that the behavior of the Skype client is determined and changes based on registry values indicated in an [administrative template (.adm) file]( http://www.skype.com/security/Skype-v1.5.adm) . This way, you can manage Skype’s features and settings through registry-based policy.
Comments
Would love to read the new Admin Guide, but Acrobat complains that the file is corrupt when I open it...
chrisdev | Saturday, Dec 2
The link for the MSI version is wrong, should be http://www.skype.com/download/skype/windows/business.html instead of skype.skype.com/
kinibaai | Sunday, Dec 3
Thanks Kinibaai - the link is now fixed!
davison_scott | Monday, Dec 4
I don't seem to be able to get the adm working. No options show up in the policy. I have read the part about changing the view->filter option but this still doesn't make any difference. Any ideas?
lansmart.daryl | Thursday, Dec 7
NO SBAMPATI NO SKYPE
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rafanto | Saturday, Dec 9
To get ADM template working you have to delete spaces before and after equal sign:
SkypeCat = "Skype" --> SkypeCat="Skype" and so on...
I hope it helps
m-i-k-e-e | Wednesday, Dec 13
Thanks a million time m-i-k-e-e, what you said worked like a charm, I'm just extremely surprised such thing was needed in the first place. It's like if we were the first one to ever try this thing.
Haven't they actually tried their own adm file?
antoine_sbh | Saturday, Dec 23
I've just tried to open the Network Administrator's Guide but I get the message "file is damaged and cannot be repaired". Would appreciate this being fixed
argosy_jd | Monday, Jan 29
The network administrator's guide, whilst fairly comprehensive, lacks detailed info on what each of the settings in the ADM achieve. Some are obvious but others not. Otherwise, very nice (from an enterprise point of view) to see an MSI and ADM available.
Would be nice if the ADM included a setting to stop Skype automatically starting. We've sorted this with a couple of registry changes but life could have been made easier:-)
richard-abraham | Tuesday, Feb 6