Whether Apple and the networks will want them to enable all the VoIP telephoney features I don’t know, but just contacts, presence and IM would be useful. With MS’s recent moves to make their products a little more platform independent, hopefully they’ll port Communicator Mobile to the iPhone at some point. But, if you need an iPhone or Blackberry client it might be worth a look. Not really ideal, quite what they’re doing over and above the standard OCS edge roles I’m not sure.
It sounds great at first glace, but it seems like it requries additional backend components (I could be wrong, I’ve not gone into any detail). One interesting one I found is called WebMessenger and provides an LCS and OCS client for Blackberry, Windows Mobile, Symian, Palm and apparently the iPhone. Microsoft Office Communications Server enables an organization to host instant messaging, file and desktop. Until today I hadn’t really looked into what other clients were out there. How to Set Up Office Communicator at Home. For Windows Mobile phones the Communicator Mobile client does presence, IM and integration with the telephoney side of OCS. There’s also Messenger for Mac which provides access on Apple clients, and supports all the IM and conferencing functionality. I’m on an Office Communication Server (OCS) course this week so I was just doing a bit of digging around to see what clients are available.įor Windows there are the usual Office Communicator and Live Meeting clients that will be used by the vast majority of users.
