Introduction to Communicator Mobile Planning and Deployment Guide

Microsoft Office Communications Server 2007 and Microsoft Office Communications Server 2007 R2 will reach end of support on January 9, 2018. To stay supported, you will need to upgrade. For more information, see Resources to help you upgrade your Office 2007 servers and clients.

Microsoft® Office Communicator Mobile is an enterprise messaging client for mobile devices that integrates instant messaging (IM), presence, and telephony. It offers a familiar experience for users of Microsoft Office Communicator, which can be accessed anywhere that information workers can connect to their wireless service provider or network service provider.

Communicator Mobile consists of two components, the server and the client. The server component is Microsoft Office Communications Server 2007. The client component is the Communicator Mobile software that runs on Microsoft Windows Mobile® 5.0 or Windows Mobile 6.0 software for Pocket PC and smartphone devices.

This guide leads you through the steps in deploying Communicator Mobile. In this guide, we assume that you have already deployed Office Communications Server 2007.