Client Comparison Tables

Publish and view status

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View status based on calendar free/busy information

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View status notes and Out of Office messages

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Add a custom location

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Add a custom note

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View Contacts list

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Modify Contacts list

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Tag contacts for status change alerts

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Control privacy relationships

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Search the corporate address book

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Search Microsoft Outlook contacts

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Manage contact groups

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Expand distribution groups

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Search for Response Groups

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Display recent contacts group

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Display current conversations group

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Display alternate contact views (for example, tile)

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Sort contacts by Group, Relationship, or New (people who’ve added you to their Contacts list)

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Sort by group

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Sort contacts by Status (availability)

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Initiate IM with a contact

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Navigate among multiple IM conversations/Track multiple conversations in a single tabbed window

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Log IM conversations in Outlook

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Saved in Communicator for Mac

Saved in Lync for Mac

Initiate an email to a contact

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Use prepared conversation templates

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Spelling checker

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Skill search (with SharePoint Server integration)

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Persistent Chat (Group Chat) integration

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Add computer audio

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(requires plug-in)

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Add video

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(requires plug-in)

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View multiparty video (gallery view)

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Use in-meeting presenter controls

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Access detailed meeting roster

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Participate in multiparty IM

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Share the desktop (if enabled)

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(requires plug-in)

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Share a program (if enabled)

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(requires plug-in)

View only

Add anonymous participants (if enabled)

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Use dial-in audio conferencing

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Initiate a Meet Now meeting

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Add and present Microsoft PowerPoint files

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View only, annotations not available

Navigate Microsoft PowerPoint files

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Add and edit OneNote meeting notes

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Edit only (not add)

Use a whiteboard

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Conduct polls

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Upload files to share with others

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Schedule a meeting or conference

Outlook or Lync Web Scheduler

Outlook or Lync Web Scheduler

Outlook or Lync Web Scheduler

Lync Web Scheduler

Outlook

Initiate a voice call

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Click to call a contact

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Transfer a call

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Manage call forwarding

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Manage team call settings

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Manage delegates

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Initiate a call to a Response Group

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Support emergency services (E9-1-1)

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Connect to voice mail, set up or change greeting

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Make calls on behalf of another contact (manager/delegate scenario)

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Handle another's calls if configured as a delegate

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Manage a high volumes of calls

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Call park

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Initiate IM with a public contact

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Initiate IM with a federated contact

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Conduct two-party or multiparty calls with external users

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Client-side recording of audio, video, application sharing, desktop sharing, and uploaded content

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Client-side recording of file transfers, shared OneNote pages, and PowerPoint annotations

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Client-side archiving of IM conversations in Outlook Conversation History

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Saved in Communicator for Mac

Saved in Lync for Mac

Client-side archiving of audio, video, application sharing, desktop sharing, and uploaded content

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Client-side archiving of file transfers, shared OneNote pages, and PowerPoint annotations

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