Custom presence in Lync 2010
I enjoyed using custom presence in Communicator 2007, but when our enterprise switched to Lync 2010 a few months ago, my custom presence migrated through until I switched to a new PC, then the old method of enabling custom presence failed. Why? One registry entry… Here’s how to do it: Create a string key in HKCUSoftwarePoliciesMicrosoftCommunicator called CustomStateURL and give it a value of the path to an OCS presence XML file, such as file:///c:/program files/Microsoft Office Communicator/OCSPresence.xml Now, also…
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 R2Communicator…