{"id":589,"date":"2009-11-24T18:44:42","date_gmt":"2009-11-24T18:44:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/refraction.co.uk\/blog\/?p=589"},"modified":"2009-11-24T16:48:46","modified_gmt":"2009-11-24T16:48:46","slug":"ms-lifecam-call-button-and-office-communicator","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/refraction.co.uk\/blog\/2009\/11\/24\/ms-lifecam-call-button-and-office-communicator\/","title":{"rendered":"MS LifeCam Call Button and Office Communicator"},"content":{"rendered":"

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If you have one of the Microsoft webcams or headsets you\u2019ll no doubt be aware that the the Call Button (by default) opens up Windows Live Messenger.\u00a0 If you\u2019re in a businesses that uses Office Communications Server however that\u2019s probably not much use, you\u2019ll actually want it to open up Office Communicator instead.<\/p>\n

The other day I stumbled across this article<\/a> on the MS site that provides an administrative template (adm) that will allow a company using Active Directory to configure the Call Button to trigger Office Communicator.\u00a0 It\u2019s a little thing I know, but it makes for a nicer user experience if you have MS hardware.<\/p>\n

Anyways\u2026 essentially you need to save the following code into a .adm file, import this into a Group Policy and use that policy to configure your computers\/users (more information on AD and Group Policy can be found here<\/a>).\u00a0 Obviously don’t mess around with AD or Group Policy unless you know what you are doing, and test everything before applying settings to end users!<\/p>\n

CLASS MACHINE\r\n\r\nCATEGORY !!MSHW\r\n\r\nPOLICY !!EnableMOCIntegration\r\nKEYNAME \"Software\\Policies\\Microsoft\\Hardware\"\r\nEXPLAIN !!EnableMOCIntegrationExplain\r\nVALUENAME \"EnableMOCIntegration\"\r\n VALUEON  NUMERIC 1\r\n VALUEOFF NUMERIC 0\r\nEND POLICY\r\n\r\nEND CATEGORY\r\n\r\n[strings]\r\nMSHW=\"Microsoft Hardware\"\r\nEnableMOCIntegration=\"EnableMOCIntegration\"\r\nEnableMOCIntegrationExplain=\"Enables MOC Integration\"\r\n\r\n; Online Help Strings\r\nADM_TITLE=\"Group Policy settings for Microsoft Hardware\"\r\nCOMPUTER=\"Computer Configuration\"\r\nCOMPUTER_EXPLAIN=\"Contains computer settings only.\"\r\nSUPPORTEDON=\"Requirements:\"<\/pre>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
This article on the Microsoft site that provides an administrative template that will allow the webcam or headset Call Button to trigger Office Communicator.<\/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":[102,61,296,236,351],"class_list":["post-589","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tech","category-work","tag-active-directory","tag-group-policy","tag-office-communications-server","tag-office-communicator","tag-webcam","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/refraction.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/589","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=589"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/refraction.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/589\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":590,"href":"https:\/\/refraction.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/589\/revisions\/590"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/refraction.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=589"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/refraction.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=589"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/refraction.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=589"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}