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Custom CWA presence icons
02 months ago
by sam
I have made a set of custom CWA 2007 R2 presence icons, and I thought it’d be kind to share them. They are designed to look like Lync 2010 icons. Here they are:
Here they are in use:
To download, click here: http://samuelk.co.uk/cwa_status.zip
Ratemycrate
03 months ago
by sam
I am having an app made for Ratemycrate.com, as well as a website that actually work and looks good. The app will only be for Apple devices first, and then onto Android etc.
No-one really gets the whole ‘crate’ thing, so I am currently in the process of re-branding it, with a better name.
Things
03 months ago
by sam
Well, a lot of things have happened recently. Firstly, I have just finished doing the lighting for the school play. The school has just bought a nice shiny new Zero 88 Jester lighting desk that we used during this.
I then also had a domain shopping spree. I registered kik.im, for Chatmail. On that note, Chatmail will be re-launching soon..
I have also registered qwe.im, for me to play about with. I am hoping to make a TinyURL clone.
Creating a custom cPanel theme
04 months ago
by sam
Finally finished my custom cPanel theme for Icyhost! It’s hardly anything big, but it makes it look a bit better. I have added a favicon, changed the logo and the background, amongst other things. I am yet to do the deeper mods, such as the header and the colours, but that’s in the pipeline. Once I have, it will be able to download here.
Triple yay!
04 months ago
by sam
Yay! Lync features now appear in OWA. I had read all of the guides on the web regarding installing it, but I just could not get it going. It was only when I ran the following command in the Exchange management shell it worked:
Get-OwaVirtualDirectory | Set-OwaVirtualDirectory -InstantMessagingServerName <name of Instant Messaging server or pool to connect to> -InstantMessagingCertificateThumbprint <certificate thumbprint> -InstantMessagingEnabled 1 -InstantMessagingType 1
As long as you run this after doing all the steps in the guides on the web, you should end up with Lync functionality in you OWA client. Yay.
Here’s what it looks like:
At the top right you are given a presence selector:
You also have your contact list on the left:
From here you can do all the stuff you’d expect, like chat:
The web client is the one on the left. The client on the right is Lync. It does seem that emoticons don’t work though, but oh well. There is loads of other cool stuff you can do too, but I can’t be asked to show.
Yay! Lync
04 months ago
by sam
Well, I still haven’t got Lync working in the OWA client, but I have managed to get Lync server going. It’s a pretty slick desktop client, although it’s a pain to set up. Apart from being fundamentally buggy, you have to install a whole manner of certificates – even on the iPhone.
I do like the whole shiny Silverlight interface, compared to the ugly 2007 client. Video calls also work out the box. It also mutes your music when you make a call, which is quite cool.
There is also a cool dial pad thing that makes cool noises when you press it:
