Suppose you want to set four custom status in office communicator. These four status are

Today at Home, Urgent Meeting, In a conference, Getting relaxed

follow the following steps in order to do that.

1. Save the following code as presence.xml using notepad under C:\Program Files\Microsoft Office Communicator

<?xml version="1.0"?>

<customStates

xmlns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/09/2005/communicator/customStates" 

xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" 

xsi:schemaLocation=

"http://schemas.microsoft.com/09/2005/communicator/customStates

http://livecommteam/sites/main/ice/Wave%2012%20Docs/CustomActivities.xsd"> 

       <customState ID="1" availability="online">

              <activity LCID="1033">Today at Home</activity>

       </customState>

       <customState ID="2" availability="busy">

              <activity LCID="1033">Urgent Meeting</activity>

       </customState>

       <customState ID="3" availability="busy">

              <activity LCID="1033">In a Conference</activity>

       </customState>

       <customState ID="4" availability="do-not-disturb">

              <activity LCID="1033">Getting relaxed</activity>

       </customState>

</customStates>

2. Once you save the file, launch regedit, & browse to the following entry:

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\POLICIES\MICROSOFT\COMMUNICATOR

3. Create a new string called CustomStateURL  and set its value as following

file://c:\\Program Files\\Microsoft Office Communicator\\Presence.xml

value of CustomStateURL should be in https format for latest R1 and R2 clients...

3. Exit regedit and relaunch office communicator (After exiting from system tray).

The new status info will look like as following.

Note: Maximum allowed custom status are 4 and the length of custom status shouldn't be more than 96 characters.

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How to enable "Appear Offline" presence status in MOC 2007