{"id":34,"date":"2008-04-11T08:41:13","date_gmt":"2008-04-11T08:41:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/refraction.co.uk\/blog\/2008\/04\/11\/lcs-public-im-connectivity\/"},"modified":"2008-04-11T11:42:38","modified_gmt":"2008-04-11T11:42:38","slug":"lcs-public-im-connectivity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/refraction.co.uk\/blog\/2008\/04\/11\/lcs-public-im-connectivity\/","title":{"rendered":"LCS Public IM Connectivity"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Here at work we&#8217;ve just setup Public IM Connectivity (PIC) on our Live Communications Server setup.\u00a0 Although it&#8217;s not my project I&#8217;ve been slightly involved as I designed the original setup here a few years ago.<\/p>\n<p>The good news is that it all seems to work quite well, you can&#8217;t quite do everything you could if you had a full MSN client but its ok.\u00a0 One problem we did notice was that we couldn&#8217;t add external MSN contacts that were using EASI passport domains &#8211; i.e. a personal domain &#8216;xyz.com&#8217; rather than the default &#8216;msn.com&#8217;, &#8216;hotmail.com&#8217; etc.<\/p>\n<p>Doing some digging showed that these <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.technet.com\/eileen_brown\/archive\/2005\/07\/20\/lcs-and-pic.aspx\" target=\"_blank\">weren&#8217;t originally supported<\/a>, but then I turned up <a href=\"http:\/\/support.microsoft.com\/kb\/897567\" target=\"_blank\">this KB article<\/a> that shows you can do it, you just need to use a specific address format.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>So if you want to add <a href=\"mailto:'joe@xyz.com'\">&#8216;joe@xyz.com&#8217;<\/a> to your PIC enabled Communicator contacts, you&#8217;ll need to add him as:<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;joe(xyz.com)@msn.com<\/p>\n<p>An easy fix to find, but I thought I&#8217;d post it up in case anyone has the same problem.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here at work we&#8217;ve just setup Public IM Connectivity (PIC) on our Live Communications Server setup.\u00a0 Although it&#8217;s not my project I&#8217;ve been slightly involved as I designed the original setup here a few years ago. The good news is that it all seems to work quite well, you can&#8217;t quite do everything you could &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/refraction.co.uk\/blog\/2008\/04\/11\/lcs-public-im-connectivity\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;LCS Public IM Connectivity&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/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":[73,70,75,74,72,71],"class_list":["post-34","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tech","category-work","tag-easi","tag-lcs","tag-messenger","tag-msn","tag-passport","tag-pic","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/refraction.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34","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=34"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/refraction.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/refraction.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/refraction.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/refraction.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}