What is Office Communicator?

ITS is now supporting a new integrated communications system that enables faculty, staff, and students to communicate quickly and easily from their computers.  With Office Communicator you can send text messages in real time over the network securely via Instant Messaging.  In addition to instant messaging, Office Communicator supports peer-to-peer audio and video, application sharing, whiteboards, group discussions, as well as presence awareness, the ability to detect another user's availability.

Currently this system is supported on PC's and Apple Computers through either the Microsoft Office Communicator 2005 client (PC), or the Microsoft Messenger client (Apple). In addition, you can access Live Communicator through the web from any computer at https://lc.umflint.edu/.  

Connecting to External IM Services

Connections to three public IM services (AOL, MSN, and Yahoo) are also available for an additional fee. Public IM clients can communicate with you using your UM-Flint email address on all three services.

To order a public IM license, visit the MS Office LCS Order Form and select the number of licenses you wish to purchase. After receiving your order confirmation from central licensing, you will need to email NSS@list.umflint.edu and provide your license confirmation and the uniqname associated with the license.

Getting Started

• Frequently Asked Questions
  
• Quicknote#92: How to Use Microsoft Office Live Communicator
  
• Office Communicator Web Access