Examining Presence Functionality within a SharePoint Site Collection
By default, any time a user’s name appears within an Office 2010 application such as SharePoint, Exchange, Word, Excel, and so on, online presence information appears next to that user via the user’s smart tag. The status information must be fed to the application from an instant messaging client, however, or else the smart tag will not be able to display the status of the individual and will appear blank.
The following instant messaging clients are supported for viewing presence information in a SharePoint 2010 site:
• Office Communicator 2007/2010
• MSN Messenger/Windows Live Messenger version 4.6 or later
• Microsoft Windows Messenger version 4.6 or later
By default, SharePoint ...
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