{"id":296,"date":"2009-02-18T14:09:01","date_gmt":"2009-02-18T14:09:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/refraction.co.uk\/blog\/?p=296"},"modified":"2009-08-24T22:27:44","modified_gmt":"2009-08-24T22:27:44","slug":"office-communications-server-client-for-iphone","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/refraction.co.uk\/blog\/2009\/02\/18\/office-communications-server-client-for-iphone\/","title":{"rendered":"Office Communications Server client for iPhone"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m on an<a title=\"Office Communication Server\" href=\"http:\/\/office.microsoft.com\/communicationsserver\" target=\"_blank\"> Office Communication Server (OCS) <\/a>course this week so I was just doing a bit of digging around to see what clients are available.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>For Windows there are the usual <a title=\"Office Communicator\" href=\"http:\/\/office.microsoft.com\/en-us\/communicator\/FX101729051033.aspx\">Office Communicator <\/a>and Live Meeting clients that will be used by the vast majority of users.\u00a0 There&#8217;s also <a title=\"Messenger for Mac\" href=\"http:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/Mac\/products\/messenger\/default.mspx\" target=\"_blank\">Messenger for Mac <\/a>which provides access on Apple clients,\u00a0 and supports all the\u00a0IM and conferencing functionality.\u00a0 For Windows Mobile phones the Communicator Mobile client does presence, IM and integration with the telephoney side of OCS.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Until today I hadn&#8217;t really looked into what other clients were out there.\u00a0 One interesting one I found is called <a title=\"WebMessenger\" href=\"http:\/\/www.webmessenger.com\/products\/im-all.htm#s3\" target=\"_blank\">WebMessenger<\/a> and provides an LCS and OCS client for Blackberry, Windows Mobile, Symian, Palm and apparently the iPhone.\u00a0 It sounds great at first glace, but <a href=\"http:\/\/www.webmessenger.com\/solutions\/sol_ms.htm\" target=\"_blank\">it seems like <\/a>it requries additional backend components (I could be wrong, I&#8217;ve not gone into any detail).\u00a0 Not really ideal, quite what they&#8217;re doing over and above the standard OCS edge roles I&#8217;m not sure.\u00a0 But, if you need an iPhone or Blackberry client\u00a0it might be worth a look.<\/p>\n<p>With MS&#8217;s recent moves to make their products a little more platform independent, hopefully they&#8217;ll port Communicator Mobile to the iPhone at some point.\u00a0 Whether Apple and the networks will\u00a0want them to enable all the VoIP telephoney features I don&#8217;t know, but just contacts, presence and IM would be useful.<\/p>\n<p><em>Update:\u00a0 Since this post another OCS client for iPhone has been released, I&#8217;ve written an updated article about it here:<\/em><a title=\"iDialog Office Communication server Client for iPhone\" href=\"https:\/\/refraction.co.uk\/blog\/2009\/08\/23\/idialog-office-communication-server-iphone-client\/\" target=\"_blank\"><em> iDialog Office Communications Server Client for iPhone<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There are a number of clients available for Office Communications Server OCS, including Messenger for Mac. Now WebMessenger has a solution to provide OCS access to iPhone, Blackberry, Windows Mobile, Symian and Palm <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,4],"tags":[31,121,70,96,13,97,236,58],"class_list":["post-296","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tech","category-work","tag-apple","tag-iphone","tag-lcs","tag-mac","tag-microsoft","tag-ocs","tag-office-communicator","tag-windows-mobile","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/refraction.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/296","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/refraction.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/refraction.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/refraction.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/refraction.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=296"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/refraction.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/296\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":298,"href":"https:\/\/refraction.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/296\/revisions\/298"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/refraction.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=296"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/refraction.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=296"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/refraction.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=296"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}