Filter Conversations on a Registered Channel

You can configure a profanity filter for each of the registered channels in a chat community. Filtering a registered channel includes messages sent with these commands: Privmsg, Whisper, and Notice.

To filter conversations in a specific registered channel:

1. Start System Manager
   On the Start menu, point to Programs, point to Microsoft Exchange, and then click System Manager.
2. Navigate to the Channels folder for the chat community where you want to filter messages.

   Chat Communities

   1. Chat_community_name
   2. Channels
3. Click the Channels folder.
4. In the Details pane, right-click the channel on which you want to filter messages, and then click Properties.
5. On the Extensions tab, verify that the Profanity Filter extension appears.
6. If the Profanity Filter extension does not appear, from System Manager, click Servers, click Protocols, right-click IRCX, and then click Properties.

7. If the Profanity Filter extension does appear, go to step 12.

8. On the IRCX Protocol General tab, choose the chat community where you want to filter chats from the list, and then click Properties.
9. In Properties, click Extensions.
10. In Extensions, click Add.
11. In Add Extension, select the Profanity Filter extension from the list.
12. Stop, then restart the service.
13. On System Manager, in Chat Communities, return to the selected chat community; click the Channels folder.
14. In the Details pane, right-click the channel that will use the Profanity Filter extension, and then click Properties.
15. In the Extensions list on the Extensions tab, select the Profanity Filter extension, and then click Properties.
16. On the Profanity Filter Properties tab, click Filter messages.
17. Click the appropriate selection: Apply to: All messages or Apply to: Only messages sent to entire channel.
18. Click Apply.

Note   If a registered channel with a Profanity Filter applied is cloned, each channel clone is treated as a separate channel.

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