Comments on: Communicator 2007 Custom Presence Tool

By: Cayman

Cayman — Mon, 04 Jul 2011 05:38:30 +0000

Anybody got a version that gets around updating the registry? I need to circumvent well-intentioned HIPAA rules (http://www.hhs.gov/ocr/privacy/hipaa/understanding/index.html).

By: cindy

cindy — Mon, 13 Jun 2011 12:59:32 +0000

Ok spoke too soon. The change did not take effect on my MOC, I ran the tool and added the RegKey. I will reboot later to see if that will fix it as I saw someone had to reboot. My MOC is 2007 R2 3.5.6907.83

By: cindy

cindy — Mon, 13 Jun 2011 12:57:09 +0000

Thank you so much! This makes it all easier. If you find a way to change the colors of the status please post.

By: CP

CP — Tue, 24 May 2011 21:16:23 +0000

Hey Tom, I’m looking to remove the stautus time on my microsoft Office Communicator. eg it says “Away for 5 mins”. Is there any way I can remove the time. Please help. Thanks

By: Ganesh Prasannah

Ganesh Prasannah — Sun, 01 May 2011 02:05:50 +0000

@Ken: Not really, it does work.

I’ve written a similar tool, Communicator Custom States, from the ground up, that works very well on Communicator 2007, R2 included. Check it out here – http://inversekarma.in/technology/freeware/add-custom-presence-states-to-microsoft-office-communicator-with-ccs-tool/

And it is available on Softpedia too.

By: Ken P.

Ken P. — Fri, 11 Mar 2011 19:51:02 +0000

Custom Presence no longer available via file:// . You have to point to a URL for it to work.

By: kman

kman — Wed, 02 Feb 2011 19:31:09 +0000

OH, btw, I do not have SOFTWARE/POLICIES/MICROSOFT/COMMUNICATOR located under HKEYCURRENTUSER, so I added it under HKEYLOCALMACHINE since it was there. Could that be why? If so, can I just add it under SOFTWARE/POLICIES/MICROSOFT (no communicator), or will that do absolutely nada?

By: kman

kman — Wed, 02 Feb 2011 18:40:54 +0000

REAL confused newbie here. I saved the tool to my desktop, clicked on it to run it, but get a “Custom file not detected. Please choose a save location” so I choose C:\Program Files\Microsoft\Microsoft Office Communicator but I get an error message “You don’t have permission to save in this location. Contact the administrator to obtain permission. would you like to save in My Documents instead?” I choose yes. THe actual GUI runs and I make a custom selection, hit save, and error message “THere was and error writing to the file” I hit OK and then a window says Custom presense saved successfully” I hit OK, close the GUI window, update the registry, restart everything, but doesn’t work. Please help!!!

By: Mao

Mao — Sat, 20 Nov 2010 03:26:25 +0000

What’s going on with the away option, why that one is not include?

By: Pravy

Pravy — Tue, 21 Sep 2010 19:59:52 +0000

Can I add inactive as one of the option in availability dropdown and show half green and half yellow icon ?