Configure MSN Messenger in Portal

Question

Dear All,
    We downloaded the Msn Messenger PAR File from the SDN and configured in portal. When we clicked the send Instant Message in the CLP (Collabrotaion Lanch Pad), we got the Error Message
<b>"Cannot not start a chat session because for the selected user no SIP address exists"</b>
Please somebody help us to solve this issue.
Advance Thanks & Regards
Art Tech

Answer 1

Ran into the same problem. You have to add a custom UME attribute named "sip".
To accomplish this, you have to have a System Administrator navigate to System Admin --> System Config --> UME Config.
Click on the Modify button.
Click on the User Admin UI tab.
Under the property category <b>Custom attributes of the user profile</b>,
add the value "com.sap.security.core.usermanagement:sip" for the following two properties:
Administrator-Managed Custom Attributes
User-Managed Custom Attributes (if users are allowed to manage parts of their profile).
This is assuming you are using the portal db for the user store.
If you are using an LDAP, then I am thinking that the SIP property is already there.
I believe in AD it might be called "msRTCSIP-PrimaryUserAddress".  To use this, you probably have to modify the code in the par file from SDN.
In the MessengerChatComponentPage.java code, there is the following line:
sipAddress = this.getUserAttribute(user, "com.sap.security.core.usermanagement", "sip");
Not sure if the code can read the AD property or not.  Not sure what the code would have to be changed to.  Maybe(?):
sipAddress = this.getUserAttribute(user, "<correct namespace???>", "msRTCSIP-PrimaryUserAddress");
Hope this helps...
After we integrate with AD, I will try to make that work.
Last important point... however you get the UME UI custom property added, the user has to have the SIP address value. THEN your messenger session will start.