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Office Communications Server 2007 R2 Product Overview – v 2009.1.30 11
Instant messaging
Starting an instant message or other type of conversation
Starting an instant message conversation is as easy as clicking the right mouse button on a user’s name
and selecting Send an instant message. This can be done from the Office Communicator window, or
from any presence icon, like those in Office Outlook 2007 and SharePoint Server 2007.
Figure 8
Users can select multiple contacts to start a
conference or they can perform a drag-and-drop
action to add more participants into an existing
conversation.
File transfer capabilities let users quickly transfer a
file by dragging it into an instant message session.
Rich text in instant messages lets users format
text, as well as copy and paste text from Microsoft
Office applications, while retaining the original
formatting (see Figure 8). In addition, users can
use tablet PCs to send handwritten "ink" instant
messages.
Users can initiate and hold IM conversations with
up to 100 people, including individuals, user-
defined groups, and corporate distribution groups.
Escalating to other communication modes
Figure 9
After they are in an instant message conversation,
users can click the icons at the top of the
conversation window to escalate to a voice chat,
video chat, desktop share, or Web conference (see
Figure 9).