Office Communicator custom presence in R2

Office Communicator custom presence in R2

I upgraded my Office Communicator 2007 to R2 last week, and my custom presence stopped working. Turns out R2 will assume default security for transport, which is set to High, and then requires your custom presence XML file to be an HTTPS URL. Even if you set your registry entry to be an https path it still won’t work. The link to the articles that did help can be found here:

Defining custom presence states for Office Communicator 2007 R2
Communicator R2 custom presence not working?

Basically, you just need to create a .reg file and load it with this:

Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00
[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINESOFTWAREPoliciesMicrosoftCommunicator]
@=””
“CustomStateURL”=”C:Program FilesMicrosoft Office CommunicatorPresence.xml”
“EnableSIPHighSecurityMode”=dword:00000000

Just replace the path in CustomStateURL with the path to your local XML file with custom presence info, run the .reg file and restart Communicator. Enjoy!

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  1. Glad my old post was still useful Eric. Funnily enough I’m just about to set up some custom presence states that have been missing since a PC rebuild…

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