June, 2008

I have been working on a multi-part article for Technet magazine that explains how Communicator works with OCS and other components to provide various voice, conferencing and presence features. The first of these series of articles was published in February edition that explained how presence works. The next one in the July edition explains how voice works. These articles also shed light on the important role that client endpoints play in the OCS system and provide an end to end...

Conferencing was a large investment for OCS and OC in the 2007 release. We define conferencing as a conversation having three or more participants in it. This can be IM, Audio, Audio/Video, data (Live Meeting), or any combination of those items. For Communicator, we worked hard to keep the fact that it is a "conference" fairly transparent in our user experience. In this article I will explain how easy it is to take advantage of conferencing assuming that you have a conference...

With the Office Communicator and the Conferencing Add-in for Outlook, you can schedule a VoIP conference call well in advance, and join the call using Microsoft Office Communicator. First things first, there’s some one-time prep work: You’ll need Office Communicator (of course), and it’s a good idea to have it running and signed in so you can avoid signing in at the time of the call You’ll need the Conferencing Add-in for Microsoft Outlook, which...

Office Communicator 2007 PE provides the convenience of "off hook" dialing for its users that are using the Tanjay VOIP phone. This feature allows Tanjay users to enter a phone number or extension that they want to dial quickly from the Tanjay’s keypad while the phone’s speakerphone option is enabled or when the Tanjay’s handset is out of its cradle. In "off hook" mode any number that is entered using the Tanjay’s keypad will be immediately dialed without...