Features I like in Office Communicator
One of the things that amazed me when I started working at Microsoft about a year ago is that there are so many great features in the Microsoft products everyone uses that people just don't know about. I could start talking about the lack of training in general and how complex software features tend to be focused on a small percentage of users and leave out the majority but that's not the point of this post :) What I want to do is point out the features that I find to be useful and see if anyone else finds them useful; hopefully this will be the first in a series of "Features I like in .... ".
I'd like to highlight the feature of Office Communicator I found recently which allows users to connect their work IM client (Office Communicator) to their personal IM (MSN/Live, Yahoo, AOL). I've started to use this feature a lot recently, the only thing I still have to figure out is how to mass import my contacts from each IM system into communicator; will update this post as soon as find out.
The second one is starting a conversation with multiple contacts at once, a sort of blast message to a group. There are lots of business scenarios where this can be used (discuss a support incident with a group of the support team, ...) but for my particular need it's "who wants to go to lunch?" I has asked some people if this feature existed and no one could tell me how it worked, strangely enough I found it on Microsoft IT Showcase, which is a great resource on how we do things internally.
I encourage everyone to post their favorite (hidden) features of the products they use, I've found this to be very handy. I showed Anton, a new colleague of mine, the Slide Library feature and he's posted on it.
Comments
Anonymous
May 01, 2007
Good Idea indeed, sure I will be posting my "Features I like" soon. Thanks pooya for starting it. Regards, SamirAnonymous
May 01, 2007
Hi Samir, looking forward to seeing your favorite features. Please link back to this post so everyone can get the benefit. Pooya