May, 2008

Microsoft Office Communicator provides several call forwarding options that allows you to manage your incoming calls in the way you want. For example, you can set up a simple rule in Communicator such that all your calls get routed to your cell phone while you are travelling on business. Or, you can set up a more complex rule such that your cell phone also rings if someone calls you at work during work hours on a weekday so that you don’t miss the important call from your...

By default everyone in your company is able to see your Office Communicator Presence. This is a great feature, because you don't have to have someone on your contact list and you can still see his or her availability in other applications (e.g. Office Outlook or Office Sharepoint Server). This empowers you to use the benefits of Unified Communications and to decide – based on your colleague’s status – whether it’s better to write an email, start an IM or...

Recently, there have been some server changes made by two of our Public IM Connectivity partners Yahoo! Inc. and MSN (Windows Live). These changes will affect only those Microsoft Office Communications Server 2007 and Microsoft Office Live Communications Server 2005 customers whose external firewalls accept traffic on TCP port 5061 only from known IP addresses. On May 22, 2008, Yahoo! Inc. moved their servers that provide instant messaging (IM) federation with Microsoft Office...

With this post, we would like to provide you an overview of how one could write a simple .NET based application to perform point-to-point Instant Messaging session (IM) using the Unified Client Communications API (UCC API) which can be downloaded from here . The UCC SDK enables one to add features like Presence, Instant Messaging as well as Voice, Video and others offered by the Unified Communications Client Platform to applications (managed or unmanaged). For an SDK overview...

A problem that all Office Communicator 2007 users may face from time to time is the Office Communicator 2007 notification “cannot synchronize address book”. This notification usually stems from logical or physical network connectivity design issues that exist between the Office Communicator 2007 client and the Office Communications Server 2007 Web Components server. However, this Office Communicator 2007 notification could be a symptom that indicates an Office Communications...

One of the greatest value props of integration features is a streamlined workflow. What does that mean to the end user? You can get your work done efficiently without having to switch constantly from one app to another! You also get the best features from multiple apps combined into SUPER features. When you think of Email, Outlook might come to mind. When it comes to Instant Messaging (IM), Office Communicator (OC) saves the day. But what about OC features within Outlook. It sounds...