Staying Active

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GAURAV SENGAR — Fri, 08 Feb 2013 03:57:16 GMT

my communicator is not activated, plz make it active.

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Christianne Melanson — Wed, 20 Jun 2012 13:13:10 GMT

I almost always miss incoming IM messages because 1) they do NOT pop to the front of other windows open on my monitor, 2) the TINY 'flashing' icon doesn't flash hardly at all - so there is nothing to tell me that a new message has come in, 3) it makes no SOUND when a new message comes in, 4) sometimes the icon is the wrong one - I keep getting the 'file sweeper' icon when what is 'there' is an IM. (Clicking on fthe file sweeper icon connects me to the current conversation in Communicator.)

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The Lync Team — Tue, 12 Jun 2012 19:14:53 GMT

@Kathrine - Lync users can block other Lync users. You just right click on the contact in your contact list and choose "Change Privacy Relationship" to "Blocked." The blocked contact will then see you as "offline" in all circumstances and will be unable to initiate communications with you.

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Kathrine — Fri, 11 May 2012 12:56:32 GMT

I cant see only one person online in communicator. Is there an option for them to block me in communicator?

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thietkelogo — Fri, 04 May 2012 13:09:58 GMT

this blog is quite different from others

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Chris C — Wed, 02 May 2012 06:52:05 GMT

This is a great feature, however I'm copying the comment I made on a different blog post here as, has been stated, it's the closest I can find to getting into a dialog with anyone on the Lync team.

We've just moved to Lync and the amount of complaints we're getting about the lack of ability to group or hide offline contacts in the "Group" tab is ridiculous. I actually feel embarrassed about suggesting to people they use the "Status" option as they give me the same answer I agree with which is "But I have my contacts grouped into teams!"

As an example I have three teams of 10 people open for which I only care about the online status (In fact I only care about the online status of anyone, if they're offline, they're no use to me. In Communicator this took up a tiny amount of screen real estate, now in Lync I can't see half the third team as the offline contact push it off the screen.

This feature must be SO Easy to implement and yet with a lack of any tangible response, Microsoft seem not to care or want to do anything about it.

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Priyanka — Fri, 23 Mar 2012 16:03:26 GMT

Issues while saving the conversation of the communicator ,,, :(

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Mike — Thu, 23 Feb 2012 23:10:41 GMT

@Dave Menninger

Try to use this Supertoast by Idialog and personally I think the Lync team should implement this in their next update or next version of lync. On top it's free.

modalitysystems.com/.../super-toast

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Paul O'Hanlon — Wed, 08 Feb 2012 13:38:14 GMT

Hi Lync team. You don't seem very active, this is your first article for 9 months! Why aren't there regular articles like on the Exchange team site? I at least would've thought you'd be banging the drum about Lync Mobile

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Dave Menninger — Tue, 07 Feb 2012 22:51:20 GMT

Sorry, but this is an off-topic comment because I don't see any other obvious way to contact someone on the Lync team. Our company has deployed Lync to all of it's employees so we all have to use it. In general, it works great for me, but I have a gripe. I repeatedly miss when people are either chatting me or finally replying to one of my chats. Often I don't see the little Lync icon flashing in yellow for more than 10-15 minutes. It's way too subtle for a system that is about "instant" messaging. (Part of my challenge is that I normally use 2 screens at fairly high resolutions because I do coding and design work. Therefore the little flashing yellow icon is often on the screen that I'm not focused on and that's part of the reason I miss it so often.) Do you have any more obvious notification options on the near-term roadmap? (like email toast, bringing the dialog to the fore and dimming other windows, etc.) If not, I beg that you consider adding it.