How to get Skype up and managed with ease

You've made the go with Skype and now the hard work of planning, setting policy and determining good management approach has to begin. As one experts details out, you really need to start at the very bottom and determine if Skype is already in place thanks to some rogue user or tech savvy business unit leader. You can do that by using your configuration or software management tool. If you don't have one, there's a handy free tool that can not only provide that info, but also let you easily disables APIs in use. Once you know if Skype is in and running or not, then it's time to list out the settings being used and get a management handle on proxies and ports and APIs. Then it's policy-setting time, as Skype has to be managed like any other tech service and application. The final step, if Skype isn't already on the network, is implementation, where you need to bend and massage the communications application to match your network configurations. As the expert outlines in a Networking Pipeline article, getting Skype up and running securely with good management practices isn't as hard as many tech leaders may believe. Article