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

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.

Related Article:

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

 

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