Medisoft Messenger---Please Help!!!!
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Medisoft Messenger---Please Help!!!!
We are a fun group of people that like each other but just don't want to talk to each other constantly!!!! The messenger has kept us together and now it is not working...
PS: Some computers can communicate with each other...
THANKS IN ADVANCE!!!
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Re: Medisoft Messenger---Please Help!!!!
Second, Messenger depends on the Messenger service in Windows. Due to abuse of this feature by Internet spam this service is no longer included with Windows Vista or higher and as a default it is disabled on Windows XP SP2 or higher. So check to make sure the messenger service starts automatically on Windows XP.
You can test that the messenger service is working by going to the command line and typing - NET SEND <machinename> "Message text".
Finally, Messenger doesn't even work at all with Medisoft v16. McKesson is supposed to be fixing this on Medisoft v17.
Given the limitations above, and the fact that the messaging system in Medisoft is not really all that great, we have been steering customers towards third party messaging systems like LAN Messenger. This systems costs about $11 per machine and messages stay local on your network so you don't have to worry so much about HIPAA violations. This is just one option, there are many. Take care though, some such has Pidgin have been known to interfere with newer versions of Medisoft.
The old Medisoft knowledgebase is completely gone now, so I removed the link.
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Re: Medisoft Messenger---Please Help!!!!
Both Openfire and Spark can be downloaded from http://www.igniterealtime.org/downloads/index.jsp. Openfire only needs to be installed on one system (this system will be the chat server), while Spark needs to be installed on any system that you want to be able to message from (including the chat server, if you wish to message from there).
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Re: Medisoft Messenger---Please Help!!!!
Warm Regards,
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