As you have mentioned "shared groups" you should see an option to share group to All users. This would push some group to all users' rosters. So, you have to create users, create groups and fill them with users and then you should enable sahring in that groups.

You cant add MSN contacts to shared rosters, MSN is not an account in your server. And moreover, user has to has that MSN contact in his MSN contact list. You cant just share any MSN user to anyone. So every your server user would have to register with MSN (with existing account) through IM Gateway and then add that MSN contact manually to their rosters.

@wroot

I think what Skippy meant was nickname, not user or JID.

@Skippy

You can't set nicknames for shared group members (if I understand what you meant). However, that could be a nice to have feature in Openfire.

I dont have so much magical powers for such deep guessing

Changing nickname (or should we call it shared group member's display name).. dont know, maybe this could be useful for someone.

just to clarify Name and Nickname sounds the same to me. Though in vCard profile they can have different values. Maybe an option to switch shared group to display Nicknames instead of names could be more useful. Though.. this could be still controlled by client. Well, this is a topic for another discussion.

Neither is mine

Agree, that would be nice. Is there an issue to vote?