Adding Presence Information to your Web Apps (thx to Patrik Tisseghem's blog)

Everybody acquainted with SharePoint knows that when you see a name of a user within the pages, a mouse-over operation will pop-up what we call the name menu. Information coming out of Active Directory, Outlook, Messenger and Exchange is aggregated and displayed to you. Nice to know is that this functionality can also be added to non-SharePoint Web applications because it is all done by a DLL installed with Office 2003 called the Name control (Name.dll). In the pictures you see a simple HTML file with some scripting providing us with the same presence experience as within SharePoint (even if we do not have SharePoint available).

Patrick Tisseghem's Blog -

http://blog.u2u.info/DottextWeb/patrick/archive/2004/10/08/182.aspx