Sign out of Windows Live Messenger remotely

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Published on 2009-11-11T17:00:32Z Indexed on 2010/03/26 15:13 UTC
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I just upgraded Windows Live Messenger at home. I'm logged into my machine at work so I have a Live session active there too. Now the fun part. This new version of messenger is signing me out after about 2 minutes, and saying "You were signed out from here because you signed in to a version of Messenger that doesn't let you sign in at more than on place"

Ok, so I went into the options on my home machine and selected "Sign me out at all other locations".

Is there another way I can force my office machine to logout remotely, as either this option does not work, or the machine in my office just keeps reconnecting.

Version 2009 14.0.8089.726

EDIT: Actually this problem went away after a few hours; I guess some kind of server side timeout kicked in.

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