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Custom presence states in Communicator, reprise
03 October 07 11:37 AM | Ewan | 4 Comments   

A quick follow on to my post the other day about having custom presence states in Office Communicator 2007 - the Communicator Deployment Guide has a couple of minor errors which could frustrate you, as one commenter pointed out, and I've had comments Read More...

Filed under: IM, Unified Comms, OCS

Custom presence states in Office Communicator
27 September 07 11:22 AM | Ewan | 7 Comments   

I just discovered how to modify presence states in Office Communicator 2007: it's documented in the Office Communicator Deployment Guide (page 21, if you're interested), and allows for either the managed deployment of Communicator with additional corporate-set Read More...

Filed under: IM, Unified Comms, OCS

Identity & presence: the key to anyone's Unified Communications strategy
07 September 07 10:55 AM | Ewan | 1 Comments   

I spend a lot of time talking with customers about what Microsoft is doing with various new technologies, mostly involving or revolving around the Unified Communications stuff with OCS and Exchange. It's really interesting to see how many people just Read More...

Filed under: IM, Unified Comms, OCS

OCS2007 trial edition now available
06 August 07 09:37 AM | Ewan | 1 Comments   

If you want to get your hands on trial software for the recently-released Office Communications Server 2007 and its client, Office Communicator 2007 , then you're in luck... OCS trial download (both Standard & Enterprise editions) Communicator trial Read More...

Filed under: IM, Unified Comms, OCS

Living the dream with Office Communicator 2007
25 July 07 03:06 PM | Ewan | 4 Comments   

I've been a long-time fan of instant messaging and pervasive "presence", especially the cultural changes it allows organisations to make in order to communicate and collaborate better. As a result, I've been really interested to see what's been happening Read More...

Filed under: Exchange, IM, Unified Comms, OCS