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Office Communications Server 2007 R2 Product Overview – v 2009.1.30 13
Group Chat
The Office Communications Server 2007 R2 Group Chat console allows groups of users to participate in
ongoing discussions on topics of shared interest. The history of the conversation is maintained so that
teams in different locations and departments can review discussions, even when users are online at
different times. Group Chat enhances team communication and enables geographically distributed
teams to work together efficiently.
The interface provides users with a list of available chat rooms on specified topics, provides tools to
search through the history of discussions, and offers filters/alerts for notification on new posts on a
particular topic (see Figure 12).
Figure 12
Joining chat rooms
Users can join chat rooms by viewing the invitation to join the chat rooms or by performing a search
based on keywords associated with the applicable chat rooms. Regardless of how users locate chat
rooms, they must be included in the chat rooms’ membership lists as defined by the chat room
managers.
Posting messages
After users join a chat room, they can post messages to participate in the ongoing discussion and view
the history of posts by other members. Office Communications Server 2007 R2 supports text, images,
file posts, hyperlinks, and emoticons. A long post can be condensed into a one-line story format to save
screen real estate.