Lync Team Blog
Cool Tip of the Day 11: Customize Your Presence Information
Microsoft® Office Communicator 2007 R2 provides a full set of personal presence attributes that...
Author: The Lync Team Date: 04/20/2009
Technet Magazine Article: How Voice Conferencing Powers OCS 2007 R2
This is the fourth article in the series that explains how Conferencing works in Office...
Author: The Lync Team Date: 04/20/2009
New Contact List Features in Office Communicator 2007 R2
Office Communicator (OC) 2007 R2 is finally here, and I hope you’ve had a chance to explore...
Author: The Lync Team Date: 04/13/2009
You got Voicemail!
Voicemail has been an important feature of PBXes for years. In Microsoft Office Communicator R2, we...
Author: The Lync Team Date: 04/06/2009
Cool Tip of the Day 10: Manage Your Contacts and Contact List
Your Contact List is a list of co-workers, family, and friends with whom you communicate most often....
Author: The Lync Team Date: 04/03/2009
Cool Tip of the Day 9: Schedule a Conference Call or Live Meeting
You can use the Conferencing Add-In for Microsoft® Office Outlook® to schedule...
Author: The Lync Team Date: 04/02/2009
Cool Tip of the Day 8: Share Your Desktop or Share Information Using Microsoft Office Live Meeting
With Microsoft® Office Communicator 2007 R2, to allow other participants to view your entire...
Author: The Lync Team Date: 04/01/2009
Cool Tip of the Day 7: Escalate Conferencing Communication Modes
With Microsoft® Office Communicator 2007 R2, you can seamlessly add communication modes to your...
Author: The Lync Team Date: 03/31/2009
Cool Tip of the Day 6: Conduct Conference Calls
In Microsoft® Office Communicator 2007 R2, during a conference, you can use the Conference call...
Author: The Lync Team Date: 03/30/2009
Cool Tip of the Day 5: Join an Audio/Video Conference
To join an audio/video conference using Microsoft® Office Communicator 2007 R2, do the...
Author: The Lync Team Date: 03/13/2009
Cool Tip of the Day 4: Start an Audio/Video Conference
In Microsoft® Office Communicator 2007 R2, you can start an audio/ video (AV) conference with...
Author: The Lync Team Date: 03/12/2009
Cool Tip of the Day 3: Start/Join an Unscheduled Conference Call
In Microsoft® Office Communicator 2007 R2, you can make unscheduled phone conference calls to...
Author: The Lync Team Date: 03/11/2009
Cool Tip of the Day 2: Join an IM Conference
To join an IM (Instant Messaging) conference using Microsoft® Office Communicator 2007 R2, do...
Author: The Lync Team Date: 03/10/2009
Cool Tip of the Day 1: Start an IM Conference using Microsoft Office Communicator 2007 R2
With Microsoft® Office Communicator 2007 R2, you can select multiple contacts or a group in your...
Author: The Lync Team Date: 03/09/2009
Rich Content and HTML in Instant Messages
As Rajesh mentioned earlier, Office Communicator 2007 R2 packs more than its name. You can see quite...
Author: The Lync Team Date: 03/04/2009
Technet Magazine Article: How RCC Powers OCS 2007 R2
Here is the third article in the series where I explain how Communicator works with OCS and various...
Author: The Lync Team Date: 02/16/2009
Cool Tips and Quick Tricks for Using Microsoft Unified Communications
This set of Tips and Tricks flash cards for Microsoft’s Unified Communications can help...
Author: The Lync Team Date: 01/20/2009
Using Voice from the Keyboard
Tips and Tricks: Using Voice from the Keyboard Several folks have asked me how to answer calls in...
Author: The Lync Team Date: 12/09/2008
Communicator goes Mobile
Communicator Mobile 2007 R2 Microsoft Office Communicator Mobile 2007 R2 is almost ready to be...
Author: The Lync Team Date: 11/26/2008
Presence Etiquette – Setting Availability
Proper Procedures for Polite Presence Protocol and Perfect Propriety—From Mr. Presence Dear...
Author: The Lync Team Date: 09/30/2008
Common Errors: How do I get rid of the red BANG?
The Red Bang (Exclamation Mark) that appears in the Office Communicator Notifications region (top...
Author: The Lync Team Date: 08/20/2008
Update for Communicator 2007 Phone Edition - July 2008
Update for Communicator 2007 Phone Edition - July 2008 (KB952693) has been released to the Microsoft...
Author: The Lync Team Date: 08/08/2008
Technet Magazine Article: How Voice powers OCS
I have been working on a multi-part article for Technet magazine that explains how Communicator...
Author: The Lync Team Date: 06/17/2008
Conferencing in Office Communicator
Conferencing was a large investment for OCS and OC in the 2007 release. We define conferencing as a...
Author: The Lync Team Date: 06/06/2008
Call Forwarding in Microsoft Office Communicator
Microsoft Office Communicator provides several call forwarding options that allows you to manage...
Author: The Lync Team Date: 05/29/2008
How to be visible to defined contacts only
By default everyone in your company is able to see your Office Communicator Presence. This is a...
Author: The Lync Team Date: 05/28/2008
Recent Yahoo! and MSN (Windows Live) Public IM Connectivity changes
Recently, there have been some server changes made by two of our Public IM Connectivity partners...
Author: The Lync Team Date: 05/23/2008
The RTCComponentService Account and Cannot Synchronize Address Book
A problem that all Office Communicator 2007 users may face from time to time is the Office...
Author: The Lync Team Date: 05/12/2008
Office Integration – like Peanut Butter and Jelly (Beans)
One of the greatest value props of integration features is a streamlined workflow. What does that...
Author: The Lync Team Date: 05/01/2008
Old Habits Die Hard….
…goes the old saying. Telephony is old indeed, it has spent more than a century sitting at...
Author: The Lync Team Date: 04/30/2008
Making the most out of toast
What is this “Toast” thing anyway? Toast, as the OC team calls it, is a notification...
Author: The Lync Team Date: 04/25/2008
It’s History
Microsoft Office Communicator 2007 introduces a new Conversation History feature that not only...
Author: The Lync Team Date: 04/11/2008
Mac Messenger 7.0 is LIVE!
Check it out! https://www.microsoft.com/mac/products/messenger/default.mspx Instant face-to-face...
Author: The Lync Team Date: 04/04/2008
RoundTable at VoiceCon Orlando 2008
A month ago I was lucky enough to attend VoiceCon Orlando 2008 with some members of our group. One...
Author: The Lync Team Date: 04/03/2008
Communicator Automation API in Action - Outlook Add-In
I've been working on the an Add in for Outlook, using VSTO and the Communicator Automation API,...
Author: The Lync Team Date: 04/02/2008
Dialing behavior using Microsoft Office Communicator 2007 Phone Edition
Following from Noor’s post on Phone numbers in Microsoft Office Communicator 2007, the subject...
Author: The Lync Team Date: 03/28/2008
Microsoft Announces Global Strategic Alliance with Aspect Software
Today at VoiceCon, Zig Serafin announce a new Global Strategic Alliance with Aspect Software. To...
Author: The Lync Team Date: 03/18/2008
Outlook Communicator Phone Edition interactions with Exchange Web Services
In the Unified Communications (UC) world 2 types of clients access Exchange 2007 Web Services (EWS)...
Author: The Lync Team Date: 03/18/2008
Contact List Management
The contact list in Office Communicator (OC) 2007 has a very similar look and feel to lists in other...
Author: The Lync Team Date: 03/13/2008
How to Install a Trusted Root CA certificate on OSX Leopard for use with Messenger for Macintosh.
Check out this post on Messenger for Mac on the OCS Blog....
Author: The Lync Team Date: 03/06/2008
Differentiating between Stages of Enhanced Presence.
Why would this information be important to me? Users at Stage 1 or Stage 2 are unable to sign in via...
Author: The Lync Team Date: 03/06/2008
Connect to Live Meeting via Office Communicator
I’d like to share a new and very cool feature found in the OC client for the 2007...
Author: The Lync Team Date: 03/03/2008
Phone numbers in Microsoft Office Communicator 2007
Phone numbers are ubiquitous today, and being able to communicate with someone by dialing a few...
Author: The Lync Team Date: 02/18/2008
UC Client Installer
To take advantage of the full power of Office Communications Server 2007, you’ll need more...
Author: The Lync Team Date: 02/05/2008
Communicator and Exchange – Special considerations for deploying Communicator in an Exchange environment
The Office Communicator team has built a rich set of integration points with both Outlook and...
Author: The Lync Team Date: 01/29/2008
Learn More About Phones and Devices That Are Optimized for Office Communicator 2007
To ensure that users have a great experience when using phones and devices with Office Communicator...
Author: The Lync Team Date: 01/22/2008
Unable To Do a Three Party IM Conference in Office Communicator 2007?
To take a look at this issue, we created the following test scenario. We setup an Enterprise...
Author: The Lync Team Date: 01/08/2008
Resource Center for Microsoft Office Communication Server 2007 Clients
The Resource Center for Office Communications Server 2007 Clients, including Microsoft Office...
Author: The Lync Team Date: 01/02/2008