{"id":2184,"date":"2014-06-02T16:32:21","date_gmt":"2014-06-02T16:32:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wiki.davelevy.info\/?p=2184"},"modified":"2023-12-30T19:19:41","modified_gmt":"2023-12-30T19:19:41","slug":"musings-on-o356","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/davelevy.info\/wiki\/musings-on-o356\/","title":{"rendered":"Musings on O356"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>So work is pushing me to Office 365; it wouldn&#8217;t surprise me if the next home system does so too. I have decided to see if W7 and a more modern hardware makes <acronym title=\"outlook web access\">OWA<\/acronym> easier to use. Since tese comments are contemporaneous with W7, I have marked it <em>deprecated<\/em>&#8230;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<!--more-->\n\n\n\n<p>I have had to upgrade my phone since my current one was very old, and they didn&#8217;t want to support <acronym title=\"you can understand why!\">BB6<\/acronym>. Microsoft have also bought Yammer and Skype recently and launched Lync as part of the desktop; so everyone needs a clear road map. I shall start with the view that I should use Lync for chat and Yammer for micro-blogging inside the company. Obviously, outside the company I shall continue to use what people read\/reply to. An interesting insight, inside a company managers can declare use policies that have a chance of sticking, but it&#8217;s not guarenteed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>So can pidgin act as a Lync chat client? <a title=\"google: pidgin sipe for windows 7\" href=\"https:\/\/www.google.co.uk\/search?q=pidgin+sipe+for+windows+7&amp;ie=utf-8&amp;oe=utf-8&amp;aq=t&amp;rls=org.mozilla:en-GB:official&amp;client=firefox-a&amp;channel=sb&amp;gfe_rd=cr&amp;ei=fJqMU8_NM4HR8geojIGoBw\">Here&#8217;s the google search<\/a>, here&#8217;s <a title=\"pidgin third party plugins\" href=\"https:\/\/developer.pidgin.im\/wiki\/ThirdPartyPlugins\">the pidgin plugins home page<\/a>., it seems <strong>SIPE<\/strong> is the keyword, and the pidgin page says it&#8217;ll support TRM as well as implying it&#8217;ll support Lync although it seems designed for MS Office Communicator.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>So, here&#8217;s the SIPE code, <a href=\"http:\/\/sourceforge.net\/projects\/sipe\/\">http:\/\/sourceforge.net\/projects\/sipe\/<\/a>, it&#8217;s an NSIS install on Windows, think I had to reboot windows to see the &#8220;Office Communicator&#8221; option. The configuration runes are documented on<a title=\"part of the office 365 community site\" href=\"https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20150205050315\/http:\/\/community.office365.com:80\/en-us\/f\/166\/p\/6903\/318725.aspx\"> this page<\/a>, which is part of the O365 community site. <em>DFL 9th Oct 2014<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So work is pushing me to Office 365; it wouldn&#8217;t surprise me if the next home system does so too. I have decided to see if W7 and a more modern hardware makes OWA easier to use. 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