You need to contact our friend stormborn---he knows everything.

Rev

Is that like Microsoft IM?

AAAAAA-HA, scared you get ketch sleepin at work nuh?

It's Microsoft IM client. The Office Communicator has been superceded by the Lync Server and the Lync client. Presence is a feature of IM, and so it's intention is to let others know when you're there or not.

Dont sign in. It is Microsoft progression into groupware. If you sign in on company server even your keystrokes and the time in-between them can be mapped. That is what it was created to do, keep track of you.

Stormie.....This is a corporate IM client-server solution and you'd have to enable and configure archiving before any content generated is kept on the server. The archiving capability on the Lync server (and I presume the same for the Office Communicator) is limited anyhow, and older archived content will be offloaded.

Key-logging software is another solution to capturing and archiving IM, but that is for any IM solution (and also webmail and for that matter screen shots and a few other type of content).

Yeps that way would work, but I have to sign in...but when you are signed in I think there is a way for others to see your status without seeing how LONG you were away for.  I tried to play with the features under options but need to work on it more.

And Al Yuh seh he knows EVERYTHING.

 It is more than that. It is a connector tool to integrate all of the office products and any can use the dot net environment to customize how they work. It is clearly not IM which is simply a messaging protocol while this is functioning as a communicator between modules as an integrating mechanism that can be customized.

Storm....keep it simple....de lady asked about the IM component, not the whole integrated unified communications enchilada....right Nehru?

Bhai, Ah Stormy. He lonely in his Apt and so loves to hear his voice.

Why do you presume I live in an apartment...not that apartments are bad? And why is that little gingerbread house you live in   a boisterous place as opposed to  opposed lonely mine? You take too many liberties with your imagination.

In any event, I am answering a question in a manner it needs to be answered. To pretend the answer is simpler is being simplistic.

sI just the way you answer a simple question gives the impression that you are bored and cramp up in a corner. Sorry if I misinterpret.

One of Pavi's nuggets.....

Gee I posted a simple question and y'all people fighting on this thread.

For those who are interested, you cannot set up communicator to do what I wanted to do.  Damn!  Checked with 'IT' today.

yuh always startin fite