January, 2008

The Office Communicator team has built a rich set of integration points with both Outlook and Exchange. Communicator Presence can be found throughout Outlook (Presence is the colored bubble that appears next to a person’s name). In addition, conversation history (as well as missed-call history) is stored in Outlook to allow for a single location to search and review all prior communications. Finally, Communicator obtains calendar and out of office information from...

To ensure that users have a great experience when using phones and devices with Office Communicator 2007, we’ve created the Optimized for Microsoft Office Communicator qualification program. The Optimized logo allows you to quickly identify phones and devices that work especially well with Communicator by providing new levels of choice, user experience and operational control. These qualified phones and devices have been certified as providing the following benefits:...

To take a look at this issue, we created the following test scenario. We setup an Enterprise Consolidated Configuration with two Front-end servers in the Pool with an F5 load balancer that also had two Standard Edition Servers in a Director Array with an F5 load balancer. We were testing a three way conference in Communicator 2007 which switches the conversation over from peer to peer to the IMMCU. In this scenario the client sees in his IM window ‘Joining Meeting’...

The Resource Center for Office Communications Server 2007 Clients, including Microsoft Office Communicator 2007, Microsoft Office Live Meeting 2007, Office Communicator Mobile (2007 Release) and Office Communicator Web Access (2007 Release ), is now available online at: http://office.microsoft.com/client/helppreview.aspx?AssetID=HA102480621033&ns=COMM2007&lcid=1033 . The Resource Center for Office Communications 2007 Clients has been created in response to customer...