{"id":1480,"date":"2009-07-16T08:00:06","date_gmt":"2009-07-16T08:00:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.markwilson.co.uk\/blog\/2009\/07\/defining-custom-presence-states-for-office-communicator-2007-r2.htm"},"modified":"2013-02-25T21:38:51","modified_gmt":"2013-02-25T21:38:51","slug":"defining-custom-presence-states-for-office-communicator-2007-r2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.markwilson.co.uk\/blog\/2009\/07\/defining-custom-presence-states-for-office-communicator-2007-r2.htm","title":{"rendered":"Defining custom presence states for Office Communicator 2007 R2"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Late last year I wrote a blog post about <a href=\"https:\/\/www.markwilson.co.uk\/blog\/2008\/11\/defining-custom-presence-states-for-office-communicator.htm\">defining custom presence states for Microsoft Office Communicator<\/a>.  Unfortunately, when I updated my client to Office Communicator 2007 R2, the custom presence states stopped appearing.<\/p>\n<p>One of my colleagues told me that <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.technet.com\/ewan\/archive\/2009\/02\/06\/custom-presence-states-in-ocs-revisited-again.aspx\">by default, Office Communicator 2007 R2 doesn&#8217;t support reading the custom presence information from a local file and that it has to come from a secure web server<\/a>. I tried that without success (using Windows Live SkyDrive to serve the file as HTTPS) but the fix that eventually worked for me was to add another registry key &#8211; a DWORD value for <code>EnableSIPHighSecurity<\/code> (set to <code>0<\/code>), in the same location as the CustomStateURL:<\/p>\n<p><code>Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00<\/code><\/p>\n<p><code>[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\\SOFTWARE\\Policies\\Microsoft\\Communicator]<br \/>\n@=\"\"<br \/>\n\"CustomStateURL\"=\"file:\/\/\/C:\/Users\/username\/Documents\/presence.xml\"<br \/>\n\"EnableSIPHighSecurityMode\"=dword:00000000<\/code><\/p>\n<p>Whilst I&#8217;m revisiting this topic, it&#8217;s probably worth highlighting a couple more resources:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/technet.microsoft.com\/en-us\/library\/dd819946(office.13).aspx\">Configuring custom presence states in Communicator 2007 R2<\/a> (Microsoft TechNet).  This gives plenty of technical detail &#8211; note that you cannot set an Away state, nor can you have more than 4 custom presence states (I found that with 5 entries in the XML it fails to display any of them) and that the <a href=\"http:\/\/msdn.microsoft.com\/en-gb\/goglobal\/bb964664.aspx\">locale IDs are listed elsewhere on MSDN<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li>Tom Pacyk has a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.confusedamused.com\/notebook\/communicator-2007-custom-presence-tool\/\">Communicator 2007 Custom Presence tool<\/a> for generating the necessary XML configuration file and registry entry (not the <code>EnableSIPHighSecurityMode<\/code> one though).<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Late last year I wrote a blog post about defining custom presence states for Microsoft Office Communicator. Unfortunately, when I updated my client to Office Communicator 2007 R2, the custom presence states stopped appearing. 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