March, 2009

With Microsoft® Office Communicator 2007 R2, you can seamlessly add communication modes to your conferencing session. For example, you can start an IM conversation with a single contact, add additional contacts for an IM conference, and then add audio and video to the conference. If you need to share data, applications, or slides, you can share your desktop or escalate to a Microsoft® Office Live Meeting session—without having to re-invite participants...

In Microsoft® Office Communicator 2007 R2, during a conference, you can use the Conference call controls to invite others, make a participant a leader, eject a participant, mute a participant, or invite a participant to a new conversation. Invite others to a conference call In the Conversation window, click the Invite button, and then select the contacts that you want to invite. Dial an outside number to invite a participant In the Conversation window...

Ever been on the road and wanted to dial into a Conference from your regular phone? We’ve got something new to help you in Office Communications Server (OCS) 2007 R2. In previous releases, if a user wanted to join a scheduled OCS conference from their regular phone (cell phone, home phone, etc.), the only way they can get into the conference is to have a Leader/Presenter dial-out to the public switched telephone network (PSTN) user. If there are more than a...

To join an audio/video conference using Microsoft® Office Communicator 2007 R2, do the following: Join an audio/video conference In the conference invitation alert, click the left pane. Join from another device Click Redirect , and then click the phone number of the device from which you want to join. You can join an audio/video conference even if you do not have a webcam. While you will not transmit a video stream, you can view the video stream of others...

In Microsoft® Office Communicator 2007 R2, you can start an audio/ video (AV) conference with multiple users or a group that you select in the Contact List. Start an audio/video conference with multiple contacts In the Contact List, hold the CTRL key, and then select the contacts you want to invite. Right-click the last contact, and then click Start a Video Call . Start an audio/video conference with a group In the Contact List, right-click a group...

In Microsoft® Office Communicator 2007 R2, you can make unscheduled phone conference calls to selected contacts or a group in your Contact List. You can also start a conference call from your mobile phone or from a new phone number that you specify, such as to a hotel room number when you are traveling. Start a conference call with multiple contacts or a group In the Contact List, do one of the following: To select multiple contacts, hold the CTRL key...

To join an IM (Instant Messaging) conference using Microsoft® Office Communicator 2007 R2, do the following: In the conference invitation alert, click the left pane. The alert appears in the bottom right of your computer screen. Do you have a tip or a trick to share? Send e-mail to trainuc@microsoft.com or leave a comment below. Neeti Gupta Product Manager, UC Technical Audience Marketing Published Tuesday, March 10, 2009 8:45 AM by octeam

With Microsoft® Office Communicator 2007 R2, you can select multiple contacts or a group in your Contact List to start an IM (Instant Messaging) conference. You can also escalate a one-to-one IM session to a group conference by simply inviting other contacts to an IM session. Start an IM conference with multiple contacts In the Contact List, hold the CTRL key, and then select the contacts you want to invite. Right-click the last contact, and then...

As Rajesh mentioned earlier, Office Communicator 2007 R2 packs more than its name. You can see quite a few enhancements in the Instant Message area as well. One of these enhancements is the improved support for IM rich text and HTML clipboard operations. This enables copy/paste operations from a variety of sources like Word™, OneNote™, Excel™, browser etc. The pasted content preserves most of the formatting information such as font, table layout, indentation...