Overview: Microsoft Communicator 2007 is now available to ECU users who have a need to communicate securely with contacts through instant messaging (IM), audio/video conferences, and data sharing sessions.

How Can Communicator Help You?

• Initiate a one-to-one or group text-based conversation when you need information quickly;
  
  
• Schedule video conferences using a Web camera for more personal communications;
  
  
• Place Communicator calls (calls from your computer to another computer) from any connected location;
  
  
• View presence information—whether a person is online, in a meeting, out of the office, etc.—from an e-mail message received in Outlook 2007;
  
  
• Share documents through Communicator “data sharing” sessions;

• Add your location—in office, at home, etc.;
  

• Set different access levels for different groups in contacts;
  
  
• Multi-select contacts for single click conferencing;
  
  
• Add Subject and Importance to a Communicator call;
  
  
• OneNote 2007 integration;
  
  
• Reply to e-mail with IM or voice call.