OIT Systems and Hosted Services has a permenant Google chat room, hosted on conference.ncsu.edu

This room is used internally by SHS to coordinate staff activities, but anyone with a Unity ID is welcome to join in.

To use this chat room, you must first configure your "conference" account

https://sites.google.com/a/ncsu.edu/oit-jabber/connecting-to-conference-ncsu-edu

You can then attach to the room "oit-windows-services" by following the instructions at

https://sites.google.com/a/ncsu.edu/oit-jabber/connecting-to-conference-ncsu-edu/group-chat-rooms