When starting call from your application using the Office Communicator Automation API, it’s often helpful to send some IM text to provide some context for the call (often using data from your application).  For example, Outlook 2007 does this when...

Starting Office Communicator calls from your code is one of the simplest and most powerful features you can add to your application using the Office Communicator Automation API.  This video shows some examples of the types of calls you can start...

Details can be found at the Exchange Team Blog . Thanks, Chris

HD support is coming to webcams.  Understandably, I spend a lot of time in virtual meetings in front of a webcam and lately I’ve been looking for something that would, well, improve my image (no pun intended). News of the new LifeCam Cinema with...

Before I joined Microsoft back in 2000, if I could only attend one conference a year it would be the PDC.  The opportunity to get a firsthand look at the future of the Microsoft platform and provide feedback directly to the product teams just couldn...

A nice write up of the new OC Mobile 2007 R2 features, including: Joining OCS hosted conferences with one click. Making outbound calls via your work number. Windows Mobile 6.5 support. Check out the Office Communicator Just Got Better post on the Communicator...

When using the Office Communicator 2007 SDK, you need to make sure that OC is running and signed in before you use classes from the SDK.  I often get email from developers new to the OC SDK who are getting errors when they try to debug their first...