Johann's Unified Communications : presence

OCS presence in Lotus Notes

jkruse — Fri, 04 Jul 2008 08:31:00 GMT

We have released a sample toolkit that is designed to enhance the adoption of Office Communicator and Office Communications Server 2007 within organisations using IBM Lotus Notes. This toolkit focuses on the following objectives:

1. Allow Notes users to immediately experience Office Communications Server 2007 technologies working in their own environment

2. Support Notes developers to quickly integrate Office Communications Server technologies into their own custom Notes applications

Download it from http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=4fee4f21-dd98-4a2f-bf8f-a17f4b85a06a&DisplayLang=en

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Differentiating between Stages of Enhanced Presence

jkruse — Fri, 07 Mar 2008 09:24:00 GMT

Over at the the Office Communicator Team Blog there is a great article that explains the different stages of Enhanced Presence.

This is very useful information - many customers I have worked with have questions about determining what the client migration steps are, and at what point users can not roll back from "enhanced" clients (e.g. Communicator 2007) to "legacy" clients (e.g. Communicator 2005).

By using the steps in this post you can determine exactly at what stage a user account is.

Check it out at http://communicatorteam.com/archive/2008/03/06/103.aspx

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Custom presence states in Communicator 2007

jkruse — Fri, 12 Oct 2007 09:09:00 GMT

Office Communicator 2007 has rich presence states such as Available, Busy, In A Meeting - but it is very easy to enhance this further by creating your own custom presence states. It's as easy as creating an XML file and importing it into Communicator. Example of some new presence states shown here.....

To create this, create an XML file with the following structure:

<?xml version="1.0"?>
<customStates xmlns=
"http://schemas.microsoft.com/09/2005/communicator/customStates"
xmlns:xsi=
"http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
xsi:schemaLocation=
"http://schemas.microsoft.com/09/2005/communicator/customStates
http://livecommteam/sites/main/ice/Wave%2012%20Docs/CustomActivities.xsd">
       <customState ID="1" availability="online">
              <activity LCID="1033">Working from Home</activity>
       </customState>
       <customState ID="2" availability="busy">
              <activity LCID="1033">In a Live Meeting</activity>
       </customState>
       <customState ID="3" availability="busy">
              <activity LCID="1033">Meeting with Customer</activity>
              <activity LCID="1055">meeting with client</activity>
       </customState>
       <customState ID="4" availability="do-not-disturb">
              <activity LCID="1033">Presenting</activity>
       </customState>
</customStates>

Then create a .reg file with the location of the XML file:

Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00
[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Policies\Microsoft\Communicator]
"CustomStateURL"="c:\users\jkruse\documents\custom_presence.xml"

It's as easy as that!

This can also be centrally deployed using Group Policies.

More information on this can be found in the Communicator Deployment Guide. Example XML attachment included below.

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Integrating LCS presence with Lotus Notes

jkruse — Fri, 06 Jul 2007 05:24:18 GMT

Have you ever wanted to embed LCS 2005 presence controls within Lotus Notes applications? Well I have good news for you - we've released an updated toolkit to include utilities, documentation and examples on how to do just that.

The Microsoft Office Communicator Integration Module for Lotus Notes is designed to enhance the adoption of Microsoft Office Communicator and Live Communications Server 2005 within organisations using IBM Lotus Notes. This toolkit focuses on the following objectives:

Allow Notes users to immediately experience Live Communications Server technologies working in their own environment
Support Notes developers to quickly integrate Live Communications Server technologies into their own custom Notes applications

Download the toolkit from http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/info.aspx?na=22&p=19&SrcDisplayLang=en&SrcCategoryId=&SrcFamilyId=&u=%2fdownloads%2fdetails.aspx%3fFamilyID%3dda49a15d-e953-46ed-9380-e2ad82285b72%26DisplayLang%3den

Some example screenshots are below....

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Multiple Points of Presence (MPOP)

jkruse — Fri, 23 Mar 2007 08:38:05 GMT

A great post on MPOP in OCS is available at the UC Team blog...

Lets examine some terminology that will be useful to us to understand MPOP. The user that publishes presence information is a presentity, whereas the users that consume this presence information are called watchers.

A point of presence is a client that explicitly provides presence information on behalf of a user (presentity). OCS2007 supports a variety of clients ranging from the soft-client Office Communicator 2.0 to Office Communicator Phone Experience.

http://blogs.technet.com/uc/archive/2007/03/01/multiple-points-of-presence-mpop.aspx

Presence for your presents

jkruse — Fri, 05 Jan 2007 07:51:00 GMT

There are some interesting UC-related musings over at ZDNet ...

The problem I have isn't a presence problem, it's an identity problem. I have too many identities! I know a larger subset of people that have that problem rather than a "presence management" problem. And I think I have a solution: a single identity for all networks.

http://blogs.zdnet.com/BTL/?p=4197