{"id":44,"date":"2008-04-30T21:16:37","date_gmt":"2008-04-30T21:16:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/refraction.co.uk\/blog\/2008\/04\/30\/messenger-for-mac\/"},"modified":"2008-04-30T21:16:37","modified_gmt":"2008-04-30T21:16:37","slug":"messenger-for-mac","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/refraction.co.uk\/blog\/2008\/04\/30\/messenger-for-mac\/","title":{"rendered":"Messenger for Mac"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve just been reading over on <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.technet.com\/jkruse\/archive\/2008\/04\/30\/messenger-for-mac-7-available-now.aspx\" target=\"_blank\">Johann Kruse&#8217;s<\/a> blog that <a href=\"http:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/mac\/products\/messenger\/default.mspx\" target=\"_blank\">Messenger for Mac 7<\/a> has been released.&#160; I guess for most people the big news for most people will be the usual Live Messenger support, but if you&#8217;re an Enterprise IT guy like me its the Office Communication Server (OCS)support that&#8217;s interesting.<\/p>\n<p>One of the challenges I&#8217;ve got at work at the moment is how best to integrate Macs into our (mostly) Windows environment.&#160; Before we tackle the big problems we&#8217;re focusing on providing access to our basic services &#8211; email, file and IM.&#160; <\/p>\n<p>At the the moment we&#8217;re using Live Communication Server rather than OCS, but hopefully we&#8217;ll be moving to OCS over the next year or so.&#160; One of the big drivers for that migration is OCS&#8217;s multi-party audio and video conferencing.&#160; Having a Mac client that supports this is a huge bonus.<\/p>\n<p>Maybe it&#8217;s time I got myself a Mac of my own.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve just been reading over on Johann Kruse&#8217;s blog that Messenger for Mac 7 has been released.&#160; I guess for most people the big news for most people will be the usual Live Messenger support, but if you&#8217;re an Enterprise IT guy like me its the Office Communication Server (OCS)support that&#8217;s interesting. One of the &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/refraction.co.uk\/blog\/2008\/04\/30\/messenger-for-mac\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Messenger for Mac&#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":[31,98,35,70,96,97],"class_list":["post-44","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tech","category-work","tag-apple","tag-communicator","tag-enterprise","tag-lcs","tag-mac","tag-ocs","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/refraction.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44","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=44"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/refraction.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/refraction.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=44"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/refraction.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=44"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/refraction.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=44"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}