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travisdh1

@DustinB3403 said:

Why wouldn't a business look at the cost and ask if there are any alternatives.

It seems like a lot when compared to something like OpenFire.

Is there some collaboration feature I'm not seeing here, or what?

Integration.
Slack integrates into all the things. Well damned near all the things.

Well, OpenFire can connect to AD. All the things should be connecting to AD, right?

JaredBusch

@travisdh1 said:

@JaredBusch said:

@DustinB3403 said:

Why wouldn't a business look at the cost and ask if there are any alternatives.

It seems like a lot when compared to something like OpenFire.

Is there some collaboration feature I'm not seeing here, or what?

Integration.
Slack integrates into all the things. Well damned near all the things.

Well, OpenFire can connect to AD. All the things should be connecting to AD, right?

wirestyle22

@scottalanmiller said:

And Slack has new MORE EXPENSIVE options coming this year too!

Can't wait!

gabriel.engel

Hi! Gabriel Engel from Rocket.Chat here. Sorry for the intromission, but I was told about this thread and thought that it would be useful if I could clarify some comments made here and make myself available for questions

Please let me know what problem are you having with the fileupload? We will release the S3 adapter soon that should make things easier.
We also plan to offer a hosted version, about 12$/user/year and some option when you just pay per server with unlimited users, so it will depend on the usage profile of the organization. We think this should appeal to large communities with a lot of users but not proportionally as much traffic . Visit https://rocket.chat/deploy if you want to have your own team, for free while on beta.
We build a slack compatible integrations API, so most of the apps that integrate with Slack, will work with Rocket.Chat, you just need to point to the right REST URL.
We have some features that we believe will be good reasons to move from Slack:

Audio and Video Conference (WebRTC)
Built-in Live-chat for Websites (you can see on our own site)
Federation (beta)
Screen-Sharing
Self-Registration
Theming and Branding via admin panel

Again, sorry for the intromission, have a nice day!

stacksofplates

@gabriel.engel said:

Hi! Gabriel Engel from Rocket.Chat here. Sorry for the intromission, but I was told about this thread and thought that it would be useful if I could clarify some comments made here and make myself available for questions

Please let me know what problem are you having with the fileupload? We will release the S3 adapter soon that should make things easier.

We also plan to offer a hosted version, about 12$/user/year and some option when you just pay per server with unlimited users, so it will depend on the usage profile of the organization. We think this should appeal to large communities with a lot of users but not proportionally as much traffic . Visit https://rocket.chat/deploy if you want to have your own team, for free whie on beta.

We build a slack compatible integrations API, so most of the apps that integrate with Slack, will work with Rocket.Chat, you just need to point to the right REST URL.

We have some features that we believe will be good reasons to move from Slack:

Audio and Video Conference (WebRTC)

Built-in Live-chat for Websites (you can see on our own site)

Federation (beta)

Screen-Sharing

Self-Registration

Theming and Branding via admin panel

Again, sorry for the intromission, have a nice day!

Welcome!

Minion Queen

@gabriel.engel Thank you for jumping in! We appreciate your input! Please feel free to tell us more.

dafyre

@gabriel.engel said:

Hi! Gabriel Engel from Rocket.Chat here. Sorry for the intromission, but I was told about this thread and thought that it would be useful if I could clarify some comments made here and make myself available for questions

Please let me know what problem are you having with the fileupload? We will release the S3 adapter soon that should make things easier.

We also plan to offer a hosted version, about 12$/user/year and some option when you just pay per server with unlimited users, so it will depend on the usage profile of the organization. We think this should appeal to large communities with a lot of users but not proportionally as much traffic . Visit https://rocket.chat/deploy if you want to have your own team, for free while on beta.

We build a slack compatible integrations API, so most of the apps that integrate with Slack, will work with Rocket.Chat, you just need to point to the right REST URL.

We have some features that we believe will be good reasons to move from Slack:

Audio and Video Conference (WebRTC)

Built-in Live-chat for Websites (you can see on our own site)

Federation (beta)

Screen-Sharing

Self-Registration

Theming and Branding via admin panel

Again, sorry for the intromission, have a nice day!

Welcome aboard and thanks for the extra info!

stacksofplates

@gabriel.engel said:

Hi! Gabriel Engel from Rocket.Chat here. Sorry for the intromission, but I was told about this thread and thought that it would be useful if I could clarify some comments made here and make myself available for questions

Please let me know what problem are you having with the fileupload? We will release the S3 adapter soon that should make things easier.

We also plan to offer a hosted version, about 12$/user/year and some option when you just pay per server with unlimited users, so it will depend on the usage profile of the organization. We think this should appeal to large communities with a lot of users but not proportionally as much traffic . Visit https://rocket.chat/deploy if you want to have your own team, for free whie on beta.

We build a slack compatible integrations API, so most of the apps that integrate with Slack, will work with Rocket.Chat, you just need to point to the right REST URL.

We have some features that we believe will be good reasons to move from Slack:

Audio and Video Conference (WebRTC)

Built-in Live-chat for Websites (you can see on our own site)

Federation (beta)

Screen-Sharing

Self-Registration

Theming and Branding via admin panel

Again, sorry for the intromission, have a nice day!

I do have a quick question. I'm using CentOS 7 following the documentation on GitHub. When I do n 0.10.40, it downloads and acts like it switched but if I type node --version it's still on 0.10.36

gabriel.engel

We also support all kinds of oAuth (Facebook, Twitter, Google+, LinkedIn, Github, Gitlab and custom), CAS and LDAP/AD integration (with is being refactored for the next release).

Dashrender

I keep seeing AD mentioned here - but personally I'm much more interested in seeing Azure AD integration. If I'm an Office 365 business user, that's where I want as much authentication to come from as possible.

wirestyle22

@Dashrender said:

I keep seeing AD mentioned here - but personally I'm much more interested in seeing Azure AD integration. If I'm an Office 365 business user, that's where I want as much authentication to come from as possible.

That's the destination but I have to figure out the here and now of it as well

travisdh1

@Dashrender said:

I keep seeing AD mentioned here - but personally I'm much more interested in seeing Azure AD integration. If I'm an Office 365 business user, that's where I want as much authentication to come from as possible.

Here is where me not using Microsoft much get's me. What's different between a normal AD server and Azure AD? Isn't Azure just the hosted version?

Dashrender

@travisdh1 said:

@Dashrender said:

I keep seeing AD mentioned here - but personally I'm much more interested in seeing Azure AD integration. If I'm an Office 365 business user, that's where I want as much authentication to come from as possible.

Here is where me not using Microsoft much get's me. What's different between a normal AD server and Azure AD? Isn't Azure just the hosted version?

Nope, Azure AD only support Windows 10 and Azure based products. Currently I don't think any Windows Server version works with it, though I have to assume Server 2016 will integrate directly.

Hosted AD is available, and that is just like local AD, just hosted.

stacksofplates

@travisdh1 said:

@Dashrender said:

I keep seeing AD mentioned here - but personally I'm much more interested in seeing Azure AD integration. If I'm an Office 365 business user, that's where I want as much authentication to come from as possible.

Here is where me not using Microsoft much get's me. What's different between a normal AD server and Azure AD? Isn't Azure just the hosted version?

I messed with it the other day. I have a Windows 10 trial VM that I set up. I used AzureAD to authenticate. I'm so lost between the Microsoft accounts, school and work accounts, and the AzureAD account which was just my name.

JaredBusch

@travisdh1 said:

@Dashrender said:

I keep seeing AD mentioned here - but personally I'm much more interested in seeing Azure AD integration. If I'm an Office 365 business user, that's where I want as much authentication to come from as possible.

Here is where me not using Microsoft much get's me. What's different between a normal AD server and Azure AD? Isn't Azure just the hosted version?

Not exactly. To my understanding, Azure AD is a simplified AD infrastructure right now.

If you want full AD on Azure, you need to spin up a server and join it to your domain over VPN.

Dashrender

@johnhooks said:

@travisdh1 said:

@Dashrender said:

I keep seeing AD mentioned here - but personally I'm much more interested in seeing Azure AD integration. If I'm an Office 365 business user, that's where I want as much authentication to come from as possible.

Here is where me not using Microsoft much get's me. What's different between a normal AD server and Azure AD? Isn't Azure just the hosted version?

I messed with it the other day. I have a Windows 10 trial VM that I set up. I used AzureAD to authenticate. I'm so lost between the Microsoft accounts, school and work accounts, and the AzureAD account which was just my name.

This is definitely a problem. I don't know about you, but I have all of those accounts - I have a school account - going to college currently, I have a personal account - old hotmail account that's been upgraded a zillion times, and an Office365 account (which is an Azure AD account).

travisdh1

@Dashrender said:

@johnhooks said:

@travisdh1 said:

@Dashrender said:

I keep seeing AD mentioned here - but personally I'm much more interested in seeing Azure AD integration. If I'm an Office 365 business user, that's where I want as much authentication to come from as possible.

Here is where me not using Microsoft much get's me. What's different between a normal AD server and Azure AD? Isn't Azure just the hosted version?

I messed with it the other day. I have a Windows 10 trial VM that I set up. I used AzureAD to authenticate. I'm so lost between the Microsoft accounts, school and work accounts, and the AzureAD account which was just my name.

This is definitely a problem. I don't know about you, but I have all of those accounts - I have a school account - going to college currently, I have a personal account - old hotmail account that's been upgraded a zillion times, and an Office365 account (which is an Azure AD account).

I've been using LastPass. Edit: Life is so much easier with something to take care of those for you. /Edit Tho when my year subscription comes up this time I'll probably be moving to something else after they sold to that other company, that sucks the big one.

StrongBad

@gabriel.engel welcome! Great to see Rocket here.

travisdh1

@Dashrender said:

@travisdh1 said:

@Dashrender said:

I keep seeing AD mentioned here - but personally I'm much more interested in seeing Azure AD integration. If I'm an Office 365 business user, that's where I want as much authentication to come from as possible.

Here is where me not using Microsoft much get's me. What's different between a normal AD server and Azure AD? Isn't Azure just the hosted version?

Nope, Azure AD only support Windows 10 and Azure based products. Currently I don't think any Windows Server version works with it, though I have to assume Server 2016 will integrate directly.

Hosted AD is available, and that is just like local AD, just hosted.

Well then, thanks for the info. Something else to avoid.

stacksofplates

@Dashrender said:

@johnhooks said:

@travisdh1 said:

@Dashrender said:

I keep seeing AD mentioned here - but personally I'm much more interested in seeing Azure AD integration. If I'm an Office 365 business user, that's where I want as much authentication to come from as possible.

Here is where me not using Microsoft much get's me. What's different between a normal AD server and Azure AD? Isn't Azure just the hosted version?

I messed with it the other day. I have a Windows 10 trial VM that I set up. I used AzureAD to authenticate. I'm so lost between the Microsoft accounts, school and work accounts, and the AzureAD account which was just my name.

This is definitely a problem. I don't know about you, but I have all of those accounts - I have a school account - going to college currently, I have a personal account - old hotmail account that's been upgraded a zillion times, and an Office365 account (which is an Azure AD account).

I have an Office 365 and a normal Microsoft account. I used AzureAD to authenticate so the domain was AzureAD and the username was just JohnHooks. I have no idea how it knows the difference between me JohnHooks and someone else JohnHooks. I guess by device id?

I recently changed my password. So I tried to install an app from the store and it wouldn't authenticate with my email and new password, but it would accept my old password and then just give me a non useful error.

It could just be me not understanding Microsoft stuff, but it just seemed really convoluted.