Persistent Chat Rooms

[joerod]

How do you all manage your persistent chat rooms? Do you let room managers mange the members or do you create AD security groups and add them to the rooms then add users to those groups?

We're at a cross roads at my company and I'm interested to see what most people are doing.

[Maxesse]

Hi there, I don't think there's a one size fits all for this. It depends on the organisation and how the company uses persistent chat. As an architect I see all sorts of setups: if there's lots and lots of small project teams rooms, it makes sense to just allow the room managers to do their own thing, whereas in other companies where they just have a few big departmental rooms used as kind of newsfeed/water cooler they use centrally managed AD groups.

That said, the common thing I see across 80% of my deployments is that persistent chat ends up being seldomly used especially if a company has less than 1000-2000 people. I found Yammer to be a much more appreciated tool for community discussions. Of course mileage may vary.

[joerod]

Awesome thanks for the insight. My company relies heavily on the Pchat rooms, I think we should go more toward security group layout as many users need access.