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#Microsoft communicator for mac 2011 full#
#Microsoft communicator for mac 2011 Pc#
#Microsoft communicator for mac 2011 mac#

The Enterprise Voice experience is very disjoined compared to Lync. The Share Desktop button is exposed both in the main UI window and in a conversation window and works as you’d expect, popping out to the right hand side to view the users desktop. I can send IMs like I normally would in Lync and I can also escalate this to an audio and/or video conference.ĭelivered in a recent update, we now have desktop sharing, which wasn’t delivered in the original 2011 release. ConferencingĬonferencing is pretty straightforward, and you invite users using the Invite button in the top of the window. I can initiate an email, IM, audio or video call or add the contact to my contact list in Communicator from here.

#Microsoft communicator for mac 2011 Pc#

When I hover over a presence icon I get the above persona menu, which looks markedly different to the persona menu in Outlook 2010 on the PC and more “Mac-like”. Presence icons light up next to user’s names in emails, both for corporate and federated contacts.

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It does however feel very “Mac”, but this is because it’s basically Mac Messenger anyway.įull integration with Outlook 2011 is available from Communicator for Mac. In terms of what things look like, you get the general conversation experience, but it’s not as polished and natural as the Lync client. I can search the GAL like I can in Lync and return corporate users.

Obviously we have presence here as expected, and any group you’ve created in Lync is reflected in the client. 🙂 You get the general idea of what goes where. I’ve sanitised a few of these images, and the text and fonts look weird, but that’s just my dodgy skills in Paint. To expand on this, I’ve included some more details and screenshots below on certain areas to give a better insight into how things look in the UI. Just the branding/titles have been changed really.

Complete experience is basically the same as Mac Messenger.

Rather it is saved in flat-file format in Communicator itself.

Conversation history is not saved to the Exchange mailbox.

Audio device experience is complete rubbish compared to Lync.

No control of call forwarding/simultaneous ringing.

No visual voicemail (or voicemail controls at all for that matter).

PSTN number must be dialled from dedicated snap-out dial pad.

Peer to Peer (P2P) audio and video calling.

To summarise this nicely, I’ve written up a list of pros and cons compared to Lync.

#Microsoft communicator for mac 2011 full#

It’s not as pretty or as full featured as Lync is, but it gets the job (75% of the way) done. In this post, I’ll give you a rundown of the client from what I’ve experienced with daily usage, and also draw some comparisons to the Lync 2010 that runs on Windows. In the past, you’ve been able to connect using the Mac Messenger client, but now we’ve got Communicator for Mac 2011. This is a pretty hotly discussed and contentious topic, the experience on the Apple Mac for users connecting to OCS 2007 R2/Lync.