Managing Contacts

Adding a Single Contact

Adding contacts to your contact list allow you to communicate and retrieve information from co-workers and colleagues within your department and across the IUB campus.  To add a single contact enter the contact’s first and last name, IU (ADS) username or IU email address into the finder. 

Once you have found the contact you can add him or her by simple dragging the contact in your list   

Or right click on the contact and select

*Adding distribution lists is not yet available on the MAC version of Office Communicator.

Creating a Group of Contacts

Creating groups of contacts allow you to organize your contacts by department.

To create a group simply click on Contact in the menu of the Office Communicator and select Add a Group.  Or you can right click on any pre-existing group and select Create New Group.

Drag a pre-existing or new contact into the group that you created.

Managing Presence Levels

Presence levels give your contacts information on your availability to be contracted

You may change your presence level manually to one of the following presence statuses:

To set your status manually:

1.  Press the Presence button. A drop-down menu appears.

2.  Choose your preferred presence state.

Contact Features

Once you have added and grouped your contacts you can access a whole host of features.  Click on a contact and you can access any of the options displayed at the top of the messenger:

Or you can right click on the contact and reveal the same features:

Use Bonjour to Find Nearby Messenger Contacts

Bonjour allows Mac users to detect computers on the same network.  If you turn on Bonjour in Messenger, your contact lists included other Messenger for Mac Bonjour users on your network who are online and located near you.

1.  Sign into your Messenger for Mac Corporate Account.

2.  On the Contact menu, click Privacy.

3.  Under Bonjour Settings, select the Show local Bonjour users in my contact list check box. 

To make yourself visible to other users, select the Allow local Bonjour users to see me in their contact lists check box.