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Seamless Switching of Communication Modes

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.

The following new features are available to Office Communicator 2007 users who are enabled for Enterprise Voice and Conferencing.

With Office Communicator 2007, users can seamlessly add communication modes—without leaving the Communicator conversation window. For example, users can:

  • Move from IM to a multi-party IM conference. Users can start an IM session and then invite others to the session for a multi-party IM conference.

  • Invite others to person-to-person call to create a conference call. Users can place a call to an individual user, and then add users to the call to create a multi-party conference call.

  • Escalate a call or conference to a Live Meeting. If a user decides that she needs to share applications or slides during a call or conference, she can escalate the call to a Live Meeting. When starting a Live Meeting from Communicator, a new Live Meeting window is opened and participants in the Communicator call or conference are automatically included in the Live Meeting.