Thomas College provides Microsoft Office Communicator to all students, faculty, and staff to communicate internally for text, voice, and video methods of communication. IM, “calls”, application sharing, whiteboards, and group discussions are supported.

Connections to three public IM services (AOL, MSN, and Yahoo) are also available for a small fee. Public IM clients can communicate with you using your Thomas College email address on all three services. SPIM filtering and URL filtering provides an extra level of security when connecting to the public IM systems.

These products provide an on-campus and off-campus SIP Communications Service at im.thomas.edu TLS port 5061 (on-campus users can choose auto-configure). This service can be accessed with Office Communicator, Communicator Web Access, Office Communicator Mobile 2007 [overview], and Windows Live Messenger. OS X users may use the newest Messenger:Mac (v6.0.3) or Remote Desktop to connect to our academic terminal servers.

If you are a student, faculty, or staff member at Thomas College who would like to include public IM, you may optionally purchase a license. This license is good until October 2008 and as long as you have a valid username on our site. Detailed pricing is below:

If you are a student, faculty, or staff member at Thomas College who would like to include telephone integration, you may optionally purchase a license for approximately $180.

Please contact Chris Rhoda in IT Services for more information or to purchase a license.