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How To Manage Skype in the Enterprise: Page 5 of 5

To disable the video option in Skype, set this to '1'.


If you maintain corporate versions of Shared.xml and Config.xml or use a utility to specifically find and change specific settings in these two files or replace these files with corporate versions, you can manage Skype's behavior to be more consistent in your environment. The script I provide on my website, may give you ideas of how you can scan your environment for Skype and update certain settings so that you can have a managed Skype environment. In my next article I will discuss how to block Skype in the enterprise if your policy is not to allow it, or you want an Incident Response option in the event a vulnerability or incident occurs and you need to disable Skype until you can patch the application.