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QuestionContact List in Communicator for All Employees

  • Wednesday, August 19, 2009 2:00 PMrzite804 Users MedalsUsers MedalsUsers MedalsUsers MedalsUsers Medals
     
    Hello,

    We recently installed OCS 2007 R2 and are now ready to distribute office communicator to all our employees. We would like to also be able to distribute a pre-built contact list so that all our employees have the same necessary contacts. I've looked online and I have yet to find any way to do this. Any ideas? Thanks.

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  • Wednesday, August 19, 2009 5:53 PMRoss Adams - MSFTMSFT, ModeratorUsers MedalsUsers MedalsUsers MedalsUsers MedalsUsers Medals
     

    Hi,

    You’re going to have to write code to do this.  Note that in Office Communications Online, the programing interface is limited and you may not be able to achieve this.  Note that the contact list is limited to a set number of contacts and the address book is populated with all users and will provide presence for all employee's in Outlook

    Regards
    Ross.


    Regards Ross Adams - MSFT
  • Monday, November 02, 2009 4:46 PMTex_Ryker Users MedalsUsers MedalsUsers MedalsUsers MedalsUsers Medals
     
    Ross,

    Where can we find example code sets for this? Is it XML based or similar? I would like to do the same when deploying communicator R2. I have a feeling it will be hard to get people started using it if they don't already have our company directory populated in there. We are a small company of 35 so coding it if I can get an example should be too hard.

    Thank you,
    Ryker
    MCTS; MCDST;
  • Monday, November 16, 2009 11:59 PMMatt Nixon Users MedalsUsers MedalsUsers MedalsUsers MedalsUsers Medals
     
    Here is a way to do it on the client side, which is probably the easiest. I used code like this when we migrated from Messenger to Communicator.

    http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb758739.aspx