Office Communicator 2007 R2 had brought sharing monitors and desktop to their everyday phone calls and instant messages. With Microsoft Lync we are taking this one step further by enabling you to share applications as well. Read on to learn more about all that’s new in sharing with this release. Fig 1: Share Menu in Conversation Window Sharing exactly what you want The entire list of programs running on your machine will be available to you for sharing. The list of...

This blog will explain how the Message Waiting indicator (MWI) works and how end-user can access their enterprise voice mails from CoMo for Nokia and prerequisites for these features to work properly. CoMo for Nokia client can receive notification of unread voice mail count or in other words offers MWI feature, the unread voice mail count is shown in the homescreen like shown in picture below: On clicking on the homescreen it launches the conversation list window (shown...

With the release of Communicator “14”, you no longer have to have a separate client to create and run meetings that include presenting PowerPoint slides, polling the audience and collaborate on a whiteboard. The coming posts will tell you more about desktop/application sharing and PowerPoint presentations. Here is a sneak peek at the UI! Meeting Lobby This release introduces a Meeting Lobby for all your meetings. As you could see in the previous post you can...

Running late to a meeting? Need to attend an important meeting when working from home? Joining a meeting while travelling? Need collaboration and coordination across distributed teams? Welcome to Online Meetings – the next generation web conferencing from Microsoft! Online meetings enable remote participants to join a meeting from anywhere using a computer or a phone. It provides audio/video capabilities with a rich set of collaboration tools for a content rich and efficient...

With the announcement of Communicator “14” at TechEd in June, we can finally share with you all the great work we’ve been doing over the past two years! This release is shaping up to be the best release for Office Communicator yet. With a complete overhaul of the main user experience, the addition of personal pictures, an enhanced phone experience and completely new collaboration tools, it is now easier to communicate, share, and collaborate with...

After installing the CoMo for Nokia client, the first thing you need to do to successfully sign-in is to get the configuration settings fields correct in the settings dialog. We've received a number of questions on what value should be used for the “Server URL” configuration field. Many people do not know what to enter for this field or make the mistake of using the FQDN (fully qualified domain name) or IP address of Microsoft Office Communications Server 2007 R2 ...

While most of the time we focus on Office Communicator from a Software perspective, it’s easy to forget that really good phone experiences come from pairing Office Communicator with great devices! For this post we’re going to take a look at a device that the Office Communicator team worked hard on to get just right, the Polycom CX300 . This device is my preferred device at work, as it has some really great acoustics from both the headset and the speakerphone...

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In addition to training on Office Communicator, Microsoft also offers free instructor-led sessions on Office Live Meeting. Visit a class and explore key Live Meeting usage scenarios through live demonstrations and hands-on activities. Classes are held in a virtual classroom and allow hands-on experience to build knowledge, skills, and confidence to use Office Live Meeting more effectively. Students are able to ask questions of the instructor in these highly interactive trainings...

Microsoft now offers a free instructor-led session that introduces key Office Communicator usage scenarios through live demonstrations and hands-on activities. This live course is held in a virtual classroom via Office Live Meeting. It will allow you hands-on experience to build knowledge, skills, and confidence to use Office Communicator more effectively. In this high-level overview, we will explore the following features: Instant Messaging: Need a fast answer...