In this chapter we added the last piece of our IM puzzle—users! And boy, we did it in style! We organized our users in groups, which we then used to populate the user's contact list in a variety of ways. Thanks to our efforts, all that our users need to do is just log on to the network and they'll be instantly connected with everyone in the organization, or more realistically, with everyone in their department, or to the department or person they report to, or to the good, ever-friendly IT guys.
Now here's the cherry on the cake. If you have a directory service running on your network, Openfire is quite capable of integrating with it. It'll save you a lot more than just time spent on adding users. Fasten your seat belts; we're just getting started.