OnLAN Messenger 3.9.6

OnLAN Messenger 3.9.6 is a useful tool designed to underline that OnLAN secure instant messenger is corporate-oriented (enterprise) and corresponds with the needs of companies (and sister companies) for a convenient, controllable, safe, and secure messaging software.

OnLAN Messenger is a client-server, multi-user application for message and file exchange. This product has been specially developed for use inside corporate networks as an enterprise instant LAN messenger. Therefore, its functions (messenger and chat) and settings are primarily focused on making sure that businesses have a secure and convenient means of sending files and messages.

5 Benefits for Your Company: Send messages to your colleagues through your own corporate instant messaging network; Take advantage of features essential for your team and forget about useless and complicated functions; Enjoy guaranteed highest security level with messenger chat, which simply can't be achieved by public messengers like ICQ, AIM, and MSN; Monitor the actual working time of your employees; Save on the most cost-effective enterprise messaging software.

Major Features:

1. Client Features
   • Works with Windows (95 to XP)
   • Multilingual interface
   • Information encoding
   • Information compression to decrease network traffic
   • Safe and secure message transport. Message delivery, decoding, and decompression confirmation
   • 100% guarantee of message reading. When you stop the service or shut down the computer, the unread message continues to have “unread” status and then appears each time you start your messenger until you confirm it.
   • Fully adjustable and controllable (local or remote) program functionality and interface
   • Server web interface to add a new user or change user’s data
   • Client may be full scale or may have limited access (for example, only receiving messages and not sending)
   • Messages sending and receiving. There’s a multifunctional text editor window with an opportunity to add objects, pictures, and smileys.
   • Files sending and receiving (adjustable functionality: no limits, receive or send only)
   • Birthday reminder
   • Graphic user status that are manually editable (away, working, busy, etc.)
   • Graphic user status--automatic, depends on system status. («Normal»: regular status, «Computer is blocked»: user computer is blocked, «Away»: screensaver is running)
   • Sent message status (sent, shown, or confirmed)
   • Message templates. Templates are easy to add and edit.
   • A message can be sent to another user, department, or your personal group. You can also make a custom selection from the user list.
   • Personal groups. You can create your own personal groups for your comfort and your private purposes. These groups may consist of users and system groups.
   • You can send a message only to online users.
   • You can send a message to online and offline (all) users. When you send a message to offline users, the message is sent to the server. The user receives a message when he connects to the server (starts program). The message contains delivery date and time.
   • Users’ context search
   • Fast search and fast sending
   • Auto-start program when OS starts.
   • Saving-separated settings for different program accounts
   • Users cannot exit the program. Only the administrator can terminate the program.
   • Balloon tips
   • You can change the program account without restarting the software.
   • Messages history (incoming and outgoing)
   • Separated message history for different users
   • System message history
   • Tab organization (My group, All, Online, or Personal) for more comfortable access to different users
   • You can send a response or forward a message.
   • You don’t lose your “input focus” on message receiving. For example, if you write an office document and a message is received, you’ll see the message window “on top,” but the text you have entered won’t be lost.
   • Different levels of indication on message receiving
   • Play sound on message receiving
   • Indicate when more than one message is received
   • Showing user information (name, phone, e-mail, occupation, date of birth, etc.)
   • Showing information about sending process
   • Hide the program icon to the system tray
2. Server Features
   • Message Server
   • • Information encoding
     • Information compression to decrease network traffic
     • Secure and safe message transport. Message delivery, decoding, and decompression confirmation
     • Console and web interface for service administration
     • Administrable and controllable web interface (fully adjustable administrative module, add new user module, and user module)
     • Three different types of user identification (program database, active directory, and Novell directory service)
     • Controllable active user list (blocking/unblocking, history viewing, client closing, and system message sending)
     • User list management. You can add and delete users, and change user information.
     • Policies settings editing. You can create, delete, and modify your policies.
     • New user request (posted via web interface) list management
     • Department list management
     • License management
     • Web interface active session management. You can send a system message to a web browser.
     • Message history viewing. You can look over users' message histories. There are different groups of messages: sent, waiting for sending, and waiting for status sending. You can clear all users’ history (or selected users’ history only) without informing them.
     • Server command history
     • Automatically informing selected administrator about a new registered user
     • You can choose which events to write into the system log file.
     • You can set up your own user-check time period.
     • You can stop (or start) execution server commands in the queue and disconnect from (or connect to) the database.
       
   • Message Server Monitor
   • • Information encoding
     • Information compression to decrease network traffic
     • Secure and safe message transport. Message delivery, decoding, and decompression confirmation.
     • You can start, stop, or restart message server.
     • You can run server self-test (from monitor or from client [via monitor if error occurred]).
     • Auto-restart messaging service if error occurred
     • The monitor can work as a remote service. You can use it to gather information from the server monitor and send commands to that monitor.
     • You can protect the server monitor with the password to enable remote connections.
     • You can install and uninstall monitor and messaging services.

Enhancements:

• Supports launching several program copies.