The contact list in Office Communicator (OC) 2007 has a very similar look and feel to lists in other instant messaging clients. However there are some fundamental contact list differences between Office Communicator and other IM clients. I would like take this chance to talk about the structure of the OC contact list and provide some tips for organizing it. If you’re an OC user, you may have already noticed there are two groups you can’t delete from the contact list...

Check out this post on Messenger for Mac on the OCS Blog. http://communicationsserverteam.com/archive/2008/03/05/104.aspx Published Thursday, March 06, 2008 11:03 AM by octeam

Why would this information be important to me? Users at Stage 1 or Stage 2 are unable to sign in via Communicator Web Access (2007 release), Office Communicator Phone Edition, etc. Users at Stage 3 will not be able to sign in via legacy clients such as Windows Messenger, Office Communicator 2005, Messenger for Mac 6.0.3, etc. Determining user progress during Migration from LCS 2005 to OCS 2007, such as verifying whether users have moved to Office Communicator 2007...

I’d like to share a new and very cool feature found in the OC client for the 2007 release. Scenario: Say you are using Office Communicator’s (OC) audio/video capabilities with your peers and your discussion is directed at a document found on your machine. You are editing the document during the conversation and it would be beneficial for everyone to see edits as they are made. From OC, with a click of a button, you start a Live Meeting (LM) session and everyone in...

Phone numbers are ubiquitous today, and being able to communicate with someone by dialing a few digits comes naturally for a lot of people. Ability to dial phone numbers is also a part of our people centric communications. Using communicator, phone numbers can be supported in the following ways User dialing the short extension of another user (such as 12345) Dialing out to a PSTN phone number (fully or partially, such as 14258828080 or 8828080) Dialing vanity numbers...

To take advantage of the full power of Office Communications Server 2007, you’ll need more than one Unified Communications (UC) softclient for the desktop. You’ll need Office Communicator 2007 for IM presence and Telephony, Live Meeting 2007 for Web Conferencing and for integration with Outlook 2007, Outlook Add-in. Installing these clients on thousands of desktops can be a daunting task. There are a multiple of ways to manage desktop software deployments. To help...

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...