I have been working on a multi-part article for Technet magazine that explains how Communicator works with OCS and other components to provide various voice, conferencing and presence features. The first of these series of articles was published Read More

With the Office Communicator and the Conferencing Add-in for Outlook, you can schedule a VoIP conference call well in advance, and join the call using Microsoft Office Communicator. First things first, there’s some one-time prep work: · You’ll need Office Read More

By default everyone in your company is able to see your Office Communicator Presence. This is a great feature, because you don't have to have someone on your contact list and you can still see his or her availability in other applications (e.g. Office Read More

Recently, there have been some server changes made by two of our Public IM Connectivity partners Yahoo! Inc. and MSN (Windows Live). These changes will affect only those Microsoft Office Communications Server 2007 and Microsoft Office Live Communications Read More

  With this post, we would like to provide you an overview of how one could write a simple .NET based application to perform point-to-point Instant Messaging session (IM) using the Unified Client Communications API (UCC API) which can be downloaded Read More

  Check it out!   http://www.microsoft.com/mac/products/messenger/default.mspx   Instant face-to-face communication Built for corporate Mac users on Office Communications Server 2007, Messenger for Mac 7 gives co-workers new ways Read More

    …goes the old saying. Telephony is old indeed, it has spent more than a century sitting at tables all over the world. Yes, people need something that looks like phone to pick up their calls, and that is why we designed devices that look Read More

     Microsoft Office Communicator 2007 introduces a new Conversation History feature that not only allows you to look at past conversations but does way more. Thanks to Conversation History, conversations are now contextual (subjects Read More

  Why would this information be important to me? 1.       Users at Stage 1 or Stage 2 are unable to sign in via Communicator Web Access (2007 release), Office Communicator Phone Edition, etc. 2.       Read More

To take a look at this issue, we created the following test scenario. We setup an Enterprise Consolidated Configuration with two Front-end servers in the Pool with an F5 load balancer that also had two Standard Edition Servers in a Director Array with Read More

There have been multiple requests for a white paper explaining the Enhanced Presence Model for Office Communications Server 2007 and its Office Communicator 2007 clients, so we have responded to your requests with the Enhanced Presence Model White Paper, Read More