OCS Activities
Contents
Activity 1: Add Contact to Contacts List .................................................................................................. 2
Activity 2: Send an Instant Message to a person or multiple people ..................................................... 3
Activity 3: Saving your IM sessions in your Outlook Conversation History folder. ................................. 4
Activity 4: Changing Presence ................................................................................................................. 5
Activity 5: Video Conferencing ................................................................................................................ 8
Activity 6: Share the desktop .................................................................................................................. 8
Activity 7: Using OCS web client ........................................................................................................... 10
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Activity 1: Add Contact to Contacts List
1. Right click on the contact you wish to add.
2. Use the contacts menu to create group lists as needed.
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Activity 2: Send an Instant Message to a person or multiple people
1. The simplest method is to right click on the person and select send instant message.
2. To send to multiple people hold down Ctrl as you select them.
Alternatively you can use the invite menu to invite contacts. Either way start typing in the box.
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Activity 3: Saving your IM sessions in your Outlook Conversation History
folder
1. From the top menu select Tools -> Options and check the “Save my call logs…” option
2. You can view these here:
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Activity 4: Changing Presence
1. Your Presence is your online status. You can change this by clicking on the arrow next to the
large coloured dot to the top left of the communicator window.
2. Hover over a contact to find out more information, in this case an out of office auto reply is
displayed.
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3. Presence Status will also use information from Outlook calendar to set presence status
4. Emails also show the on line status of contacts
5. Open an email in the Outlook inbox.
6. Right-click on a contact to invoke the OCS command line.
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7. Select the IM command icon to initiate an IM session.
Activity 5: Video Conferencing
1. Select the webcam during an IM session and a Videoconference session will start. All other
active OCS sessions (e.g. IM, Presence Management) will remain running alongside.
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Activity 6: Share the desktop
1. Select the desktop share command icon.
2. The other parties are able to view your desktop.
Any action on your desktop will be replicated on the other parties’ display
3. Select someone to share control of your desktop.
(You will be asked to confirm that you are granting control to another)
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Activity 7: Using OCS web client
1. Go to: https://im.anglia.ac.uk/
2. Choose private or public computer as appropriate
3. Log on using your username and password. Don’t forget to prefix your username with
anglia\
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