Enhanced presence for a user account can be enabled on the Communicationstab of Propertiesonly for users who were moved from a previous version of Office Communications Server. After you enable enhanced presence for a user, you cannot disable it.

Users who are enabled for Office Communications Server 2007 R2 have enhanced presence enabled by default, and you cannot use the Communicationstab of Propertiesto change it.

Note:
For disabled user accounts that were moved from a previous version of Office Communications Server, enabling the account while it is assigned to an Office Communications Server 2007 R2 Standard Edition server or Enterprise pool automatically enables enhanced presence, and you cannot disable it. For details about disabling and enabling an account, see Enabling or Disabling an Individual User Account.

To configure enhanced presence for a specific user

  1. Open the Office Communications Server 2007 R2 snap-in.

  2. In the console tree, expand the forest node, and then navigate to the Standard Edition server or Enterprise pool that contains the user account that you want to configure.

  3. Expand the pool of the user or group of users for which you want to configure enhanced presence, and then expand Users.

  4. In the details pane, right-click the user account, and then click Properties.

  5. On the Communicationstab, next to Other settings, click Configure.

  6. In the Other Optionsdialog box, select the Enable enhanced presencecheck box.