Change your Font, Size and Color to Have More Fun Within Microsoft Office Communicator, you have many options.  The ones we will talk about today are how to change the look of your IM sessions.  Below we will show you the steps to change your font size but the same steps can be used to [...]

Change your Title to be more Productive If you’re like me there are times when you have “a thousand” desktop windows open, many of them being Microsoft Office Communicator (MOC) windows. Changing the Title or Subject of a specific Communicator window can help you juggle your windows.

Microsoft Office Communicator Presence Etiquette – Leave a Note In a previous blog post we talked about “presence” as a form of etiquette.  Presence is a quick and easy way for you to let others know your availability.  Another useful etiquette tool is the “Note”.  We are not talking about Thank You notes, although those [...]

Using Microsoft Office Communicator – Tag for Status Change Alerts Waiting for someone to come online so you can chat with them and need a notification when they become available?  You can do that! With Microsoft Office Communications Server 2007 R2, the “Tag” feature is just another tool to help you become more productive in your [...]

Microsoft Office Communications Server Client in everyday use with Scott Barr Engage, Inc hosted a Microsoft Office Communications Server client in everyday use webinar on June 24th, 2010.  The turn out was great and the information was valuable.  Scott, who has over 15 years of experience in the IT field and over 5 years of working [...]

Having been involved with Microsoft Office Communications Server in previous versions, LCS 2005, from a technical and user perspective it is exciting to see the evolution of this product.   There are plenty of software only commercial and open source products to choose from but none that integrate naturally with the Microsoft Office suite that [...]

Engage is privileged to be exhibiting at HIMSS this week along with SIEMENS Communications. We’re showing off a few of our healthcare applications with embedded UC alongside SIEMENS own healthcare technology. The show floor opened just about 30 minutes ago, so there’s not much to report, other than that HIMSS this year is huge. Even [...]

Unified Communications (UC) has been such an abstract concept to try to explain.  Much of it is about speeding specific business processes, so talking about it in a vacuum can be nearly impossible. Which is why we’re getting such a kick out of this video that Microsoft put out a few years ago for its UC solutions. [...]

Among the definitions of life is the ability for an organism to grow, to adapt, to respond, to reproduce, and to convert raw materials into energy. Organizations, it seems, fit the definition of life very well. So are there other qualities of life that the living organization can deploy to improve its success. Recently, I [...]