SIP and MS Windows Messenger

Daniel-Constantin Mierla

Elena-Ramona Modroiu

Voice Sistem SRL

Abstract

This document tries to collect user experiences with MS Windows Messenger as a SIP user agent client. In addition, it includes a tutorial with many screen shots to help people with very low or even no knowledge of SIP or computer internals to configure and use MS Windows Messenger with SIP.

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Table of Contents

1. Introduction
2. Warning
3. Using MS Windows Messenger with a custom SIP Server
3.1. Configure MS Windows Messenger
3.1.1. Start MS Windows Messenger
3.1.2. Go to Options
3.1.3. Go to Accounts
3.1.4. Advanced Option
3.1.5. Register with your SIP server
3.1.6. Authentication
3.1.7. Online
3.2. Use MS Windows Messenger
3.2.1. Start a chat session
3.2.2. Start a voice conversation
4. Technical Details
5. Hardware And Software Requirements
6. Issues
7. Download Links
8. MS Windows Messenger Customization
8.1. Enable Debugging
8.2. Disable MS Windows Messenger
8.3. Remove MS Windows Messenger
8.4. Send DTMF
8.5. Allow Incoming IM
9. Related Links