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Office Integration

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.

Office Communicator 2007 provides integrates with Microsoft Office, enabling users to offers improvements to the Conferencing Add-in for Microsoft® Office Outlook, including:

  • Rich Presence integration with Outlook and SharePoint. Office Communicator 2007 is integrated with Office Communicator 2007 and Office Communications Server 2007 Rich Presence model, so each persons name in the Outlook user interface has an accompanying Presence button to indicate status. Users can right-click the Presence button to show a contextual menu that displays a Status text string, such as In a Meeting for a Busy status, along with Calendar information for the contact, if available.

  • Right-click communication Options from Outlook and SharePoint. Office Outlook is and Office SharePoint are integrated with Microsoft Office Communicator 2007 and Office Communications Server 2007 to allow users to conveniently make phone calls from within the Outlook user interface. For example, users can right-click a person's presence button in Outlook and then use the contextual menu to place a call to the contact. In addition to calling options, the contextual menu gives user a full set of communication options, including sending an IM, sending an e-mail, and scheduling a meeting in Outlook.

  • Find Previous Conversations. Users can now right-click a contact, selected contacts, a distribution group, or contact group and then select Find Previous Conversations to return a list of e-mail and Office Communicator 2007 conversations with the selected contacts.

  • Call All from Outlook. Users can right-click a person's Presence button in an Outlook item, click Call <user name>, and then click Call All to start a Communicator conference call with all the users listed in the To and From fields in the Outlook item.

  • Easy one-click phone calling from voice mail. Outlook voice mail items provide hyperlinked phone numbers for voice mail items in the user's Inbox, enabling the user to click a link in the voice mail to quickly return a call.

  • Take Notes during call with OneNote. Users can take notes during a phone call with Office OneNote. Notes taken during a conversation are accessible from a link stored with the item in the Outlook Conversation History folder.