Comments on: OCS 2007 & Messenger for the Mac

By: Amilanc

Amilanc — Tue, 05 Jan 2010 15:14:05 +0000

Can I connect to corporate OCS from internet using Mac communicator client. I tried and it didnt work for me. Any specific settings that needs to be considered ?

By: JD

JD — Sun, 07 Jun 2009 18:22:23 +0000

Tom,

as a plain old user, is there any way that I can see the filters?

We use Microsoft hosted OCS Server and I am not in the admin group. I have heard that R2 is needed before the mac client will work,

By: Tom Pacyk

Tom Pacyk — Fri, 08 May 2009 18:34:37 +0000

JD, definitely. Look at the Client Version filters on your Front-End server.

By: JD

JD — Fri, 08 May 2009 14:03:24 +0000

Can an admin block mac communicator clients?

By: Darbo Scalante

Darbo Scalante — Wed, 07 May 2008 05:13:29 +0000

Information i’ve founded

I have upgraded to Messenger 7 from version 6. Version 6 worked fine for my corporate network. The upgrade properly transferred to settings over. However, now when I try and sign in I get a message that the service is not available or I may not be connected to the internet. Weirdly enough, my co-worker sees me as “signed in” but “away” yet when he send me a message, it never gets to me, and my Messenger 7 app shows me as not signed in.

ANSWER Are you using the Office Communications Server 2007 or LCS 2005? Messenger 7 supports OCS 2007. If your company is using LCS 2005, you’ll need to use Messenger 6.0.3. Thanks, Rebecca Rebecca Harriss rharr…@online.microsoft.com (remove online for any direct replies) Microsoft Corporation Macintosh Business Unit, SDET

I hope this could be useful for someone, i hope i can find someone who can helpme. Thanks in advice.

By: Curtis

Curtis — Wed, 16 Apr 2008 14:48:48 +0000

I still can’t seem to logon with Messenger 6.0.3 — I have the account created and Enhanced Presence is enabled in OCS. On the Mac side, I imported our Root Certificate to the x509 anchors keychain and manually specified the OCS server in Messenger 6.0.3. However, I get a similar error described in your post above (“… You may not be connected to the Internet.”).

The only thing I didn’t do, and I am not sure which scenario outlined above ended up finally working for you, was to have the user sign in to Communicator 2007. This is a fresh user that has never signed into Communicator. Could that be my problem? Or am I overlooking something else?

By: Happy Person

Happy Person — Sat, 05 Apr 2008 08:37:36 +0000

This is awesome, I’ve been looking for this solution for a while. Worked for me. Thanks!

By: Thomas

Thomas — Mon, 31 Mar 2008 20:56:26 +0000

Communicator Web Access doesn’t offer VOIP and Video support. When will the Office Communicator version for the MAC be available? Does anyone know if there is a BETA version?

By: Alex

Alex — Wed, 13 Feb 2008 18:00:31 +0000

You can likely still use Communicator Web Access on the Mac to connect to OCS 2007. It offers the full functionality of the fat client.