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Messenger for Mac 7.0 released and now available for download

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Rebecca Harriss [MSFT]

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Apr 29, 2008, 2:39:44 PM4/29/08
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Messenger for Mac 7.0 has been released! You can download the product from
the following location:
<http://www.microsoft.com/mac/products/messenger/default.mspx>.

Messenger for Mac 7.0 supports the Windows Live Personal Service and the
Office Communications Server 2007. For more information on the release,
please see the above link.

Thanks,
Rebecca Harriss
(on behalf of the Macintosh Business Unit)

Rebecca Harriss
rhar...@online.microsoft.com (remove online for any direct replies)
Microsoft Corporation
Macintosh Business Unit, SDET

This posting is provided ³AS IS² with no warranties, and confers no rights.


Cameron Williams

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Apr 29, 2008, 3:08:53 PM4/29/08
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Really happy to see this update. Is offline message support coming soon?

jwaa...@gmail.com

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Apr 29, 2008, 3:40:28 PM4/29/08
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On Apr 29, 1:39 pm, "Rebecca Harriss [MSFT]"

<rharr...@online.microsoft.com> wrote:
> Messenger for Mac 7.0 has been released! You can download the product from
> the following location:
> <http://www.microsoft.com/mac/products/messenger/default.mspx>.
>
> Messenger for Mac 7.0 supports the Windows Live Personal Service and the
> Office Communications Server 2007. For more information on the release,
> please see the above link.
>
> Thanks,
> Rebecca Harriss
> (on behalf of the Macintosh Business Unit)
>
> Rebecca Harriss
> rharr...@online.microsoft.com (remove online for any direct replies)

> Microsoft Corporation
> Macintosh Business Unit, SDET
>
> This posting is provided ³AS IS² with no warranties, and confers no rights.

Tried it, didn't work. I get an error saying the service is not
available. I used the same corporate settings from version 6.0.3. Does
this version only work with Office Communications Server 2007? I
switched back to version 6.0.3 and it still works.

Rebecca Harriss [MSFT]

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Apr 29, 2008, 3:45:06 PM4/29/08
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On 4/29/08 3:40 PM, in article
cfba1185-8039-4b25...@59g2000hsb.googlegroups.com,
"jwaa...@gmail.com" <jwaa...@gmail.com> wrote:

That is correct.

-Messenger 6.0.3 supports LCS 2005 and has limited support for OCS 2007
-Messenger 7.0 supports OCS 2007 and includes corporate A/V functionality
and other new features.

Thanks,
Rebecca

Rebecca Harriss
rhar...@online.microsoft.com (remove online for any direct replies)

Claudio

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Apr 29, 2008, 6:08:46 PM4/29/08
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On 29 Apr, 21:45, "Rebecca Harriss [MSFT]"

<rharr...@online.microsoft.com> wrote:
> On 4/29/08 3:40 PM, in article
> cfba1185-8039-4b25-814e-4be59c6ca...@59g2000hsb.googlegroups.com,

Hello. I'd like to post my thought on this new messenger. Let's start
with a preamble: I only use Messenger with a personal account, then
with the Windows Live network. At first, when I saw the Macupdate
post, i thought: "Wow, finally here it is!". I downloaded like a
flash, copied in the Application folder, run it... And, i'm sorry to
say, I was REALLY disappointed. I mean: new features are? The search
box and nicknames? I was looking for offline messages, animoticons,
maybe tabbed chat... Nothing was there. Even the old bugs, such as
erasing from the contact list those contacts I don't have anymore
(with 4 other clients -- Adium, aMSN, Mercury and WLM on Windows
they're gone, why Microsoft Messenger keeps showing me them?) was
there. So... Unless I'm doing something wrong, Microsoft Messenger has
a LONG way to go. And please, note that I'm not even metioning A/V, so
the same old story "we're moving to a new protocol so we're waiting
for it" (that, from a computer sciences student, it's perfectly
understandable) won't work :)

Sorry if this seems too rude, but I was really let down this time... I
only hope I made some positive criticism.

Aslon Goow

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Apr 30, 2008, 10:18:10 AM4/30/08
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Please someone help me!
I need instructions in getting the mac messenger 7 to work with ocs-2007. I have tried everything. i get kerberos prompt. or a message saying the date and time setting may be off.

I really need some direction please help!

Ben Urban

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Apr 30, 2008, 10:43:32 PM4/30/08
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> Please someone help me!
> I need instructions in getting the mac messenger 7 to work with ocs-2007. I have tried everything. i get kerberos prompt. or a message saying the date and time setting may be off.
>
> I really need some direction please help!

Make sure your computer's clock is set to synchronize to the domain controller. I'm told that the Mac implementation of Kerberos is extremely sensitive to clock sync issues (even as little as 30 seconds!).

Michael Hicks

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May 12, 2008, 11:24:01 PM5/12/08
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I can't get it to work either. Running Win XP on Parallels I can get MS Communicator to work without a problem. However, on the Mac side (10.5.2) with the same settings and certificate I get the message that date or time is incorrect or certificate invalid.

I work in a Windows shop so I am having to troubleshoot on my own. Any suggestions for what I can do? I really don't want to keep running Win XP on Parallels just for corporate IM functionality.

Rebecca Harriss [MSFT]

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May 13, 2008, 2:36:27 PM5/13/08
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On 5/12/08 11:24 PM, in article ee99...@webcrossing.caR9absDaxw, "Michael
Hicks" <mhi...@pinnaclepartnersmed.com> wrote:

Is your company running OCS 2007 or LCS 2005? Messenger 7 only supports OCS
2007.

Thanks,
Rebecca

Anand Mandapati

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May 14, 2008, 4:21:01 AM5/14/08
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"Rebecca Harriss [MSFT]" wrote:

> Is your company running OCS 2007 or LCS 2005? Messenger 7 only supports OCS
> 2007.

How do we tell which version our company is using? 6.0.3 works, though at
times very unreliably (a lot of messages "bounce"). I was hoping 7 would fix
that but I can't login using it.

William Smith

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May 14, 2008, 10:01:02 PM5/14/08
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Anand Mandapati wrote:

You'll need to ask your Office Communications Server administrator or
Help Desk. Messenger 7.0 will not work with OCS 2003. It will only work
with OCS 2007.

What do you mean by "bounce" when using Messenger? Do you receive error
messages? The messages should send instantly.

Hope this helps!

--

bill

William M. Smith, Microsoft Interop MVP - Mac/Windows
Entourage Help Page <http://entourage.mvps.org/>
Entourage Help Blog <http://blog.entourage.mvps.org/>

Lee Berk

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May 29, 2008, 10:30:07 AM5/29/08
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Are there any plans to add support for LCS 2005 in Messenger 7? My large 90,000 person company moves like a turtle with upgrades (ie move to 2007). Having messenger 7 would allow me to have more of the features offered within Communicator 2005 if it could support LCS 2005. Thanks for your consideration.

Rebecca Harriss [MSFT]

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May 30, 2008, 8:52:37 AM5/30/08
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On 5/29/08 10:30 AM, in article ee99f...@webcrossing.caR9absDaxw, "Lee
Berk" <lee_...@cable.comcast.com> wrote:

Hi Lee, at this time there are no plans to support LCS 2005 with Messenger
7. Messenger 7 was focused on supporting OCS 2007 and adding A/V support. I
will pass your request to our Program Management, but have been told in the
past we are not going to support this setup.

Thanks,
Rebecca

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