Appear Offline in Microsoft Office Communicator Server 2007
A few customers have been asking on how to get the “Appear offline” status in Microsoft Office Communication Server 2007. Although it is advisable to use the “Do not disturb” status instead of “Appear offline”, since its corporate presence system and not public, however there are options available to make the “Appear Offline” status appear in OCS 2007 clients, if it is more suitable for a certain organization. Remember that it would reduce the value of presence if many of your employees selected the “Appear Offline” status, Moreover, it will also cause your phone calls to go to voice mails.
But if you have decided that this is the option you really need, then you can use the Administrative template called “Communicator.adm” available in your distribution disk and apply it through group policy in the domain. This administrative template has a setting called “EnableAppearOffline” setting which will make the “Appear offline” status available to all your clients.
If you need this setting for only a client or two, you can also use the registry to set this up. The location is Computer\HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Policies\Microsoft\Communicator where you have to create a DWORD called “EnableAppearOffline” and set it to 1. After this registry setting, you have to sign out of Communicator client and then sign back in to get the status available.
Once again, compare the “Do not disturb” or the “Appear offline” status as which one will be better for your organization’s productivity.
Comments
Anonymous
January 01, 2003
Do you have communicator or Lync installed. I just checked my machine and I have Lync client installed and I can see this path available on my Windows 7 x64.Anonymous
January 01, 2003
Hi Priyank, Yes this is available...Anonymous
July 19, 2010
Cool!Anonymous
February 29, 2012
hey the is coolAnonymous
June 11, 2012
Is this poosible on windows 7 also?Anonymous
June 21, 2012
No Omer, This location is NOT available on Windows 7. I'm running Windows 7 X64, and cannot find: "ComputerHKEY_LOCAL_MACHINESoftwarePoliciesMicrosoftCommunicator " Only ComputerHKEY_LOCAL_MACHINESoftwarePoliciesMicrosoft"Anonymous
August 09, 2012
Thank u so much.....Anonymous
August 09, 2012
If LYNC is installed in windows 7.. Just run "regedit"(without quotes) and then follow the steps as mentioned above by Omer..... Cheers...Anonymous
December 10, 2012
@Angel 21 Jun 2012 8:02 AM Create a new Key called "Communicator" and then follow the steps above... it will work.. i just tried it on XP x64, for some reason I didn't have "Communicator" under ...PoliciesMicrosoftAnonymous
June 06, 2013
Windows 7: Start > Run > regedit Navigate to My ComputerHKEY_CURRENT_USERSOFTWAREPoliciesMicrosoftCommunicator Right-Click in the right hand side window and select NEW>DWORD Name the DWORD as "EnableAppearOffline" Set the Value Data to '1' to enable it. After making above change, exit from office communicator (also from system tray if it is still on) and relaunch it.Anonymous
October 01, 2013
Cool :)Anonymous
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