From its humble beginnings as purely an IM and Presence Web client, CWA catapults itself into relevancy with its 2007 R2 release with the addition of two major OCS modalities – Audio and Desktop sharing!  And as if that wasn’t enough, CWA has also Read More

With Microsoft® Office Communicator 2007 R2, you can start an instant messaging session with a single contact, with multiple contacts, or with a group. Send an Instant MessageYou typically start an instant messaging session by double-clicking a contact Read More

With Microsoft® Office Communicator 2007 R2, you use Access Levels to control the presence information that others see. For example, you probably have a short list of co-workers who you want to have access to your mobile phone number. To make your mobile Read More

Each contact in your Contact List has a Presence button and a status text string that reflects his or her availability and willingness to be contacted. You can use the status indicated by the Presence button to determine which mode of communication Read More

Each Microsoft® Office Communicator 2007 R2 contact, including you, has a full set of presence attributes that describe availability, activity, and willingness to be contacted. Presence attributes also include contact information such as phone numbers, Read More

  This is the fourth article in the series that explains how Conferencing works in Office Communications Server 2007 R2. It builds upon the concepts in the previous articles on Voice, Presence and RCC. The article explains the conference types in Read More

Microsoft® Office Communicator 2007 R2 provides a full set of personal presence attributes that you can customize and make available to other contacts to help them communicate with you. As shown in this illustration, presence attributes include your Read More

  Office Communicator (OC) 2007 R2 is finally here, and I hope you’ve had a chance to explore some of the cool new features Rajesh mentions in his blog post.  Although the release was mostly focused on enhancing the voice experience, we also Read More

 Voicemail has been an important feature of PBXes for years. In Microsoft Office Communicator R2, we have continued to invest in the integration with Exchange Unified Messaging (EUM) to make it easy for you to access your Voicemails and manage your Read More

Your Contact List is a list of co-workers, family, and friends with whom you communicate most often. When you first install Microsoft® Office Communicator 2007 R2, you must build your Contact List.   Search for someone Type a person’s name or Read More

You can use the Conferencing Add-In for Microsoft® Office Outlook® to schedule Microsoft® Office Communicator 2007 R2 conference calls or Microsoft® Office Live Meeting Web conferences. Schedule Live Meeting Web conferences when you need to show slides, Read More

With Microsoft® Office Communicator 2007 R2, to allow other participants to view your entire computer desktop during a conversation or IM, click the Sharing button, and then click Share Desktop. To share control so that another participant can provide Read More