The most of you know the *Microsoft Office Communicator* which connects to the Microsoft Office Live Communicator Server. The Microsoft Office Communicator *shows you the online status* of your contact list. As well it *offers you a nice set of user commands for collaboration services*. But even if you are not using the MS Office Communicator itself, perhaps you use the Microsoft Outlook function that shows the online status of the colleagues in the address line (from/to/cc). By moving your mouse to this online presence icon you can expand a set of user actions for using collaboration commands based on Microsoft products like MS Outlook and MS Office Communicator. 
*Why not using theses features as well in the SAP NetWeaver Portal?* You have an *intranet scenario* implemented with the *SAP NetWeaver Portal* and all portal users are stored in the Microsoft Active Directory (ADS). In this case it is easy to use this online presence function. You only have to write your own iView, which retrieves the users from the ADS and include special javascript code lines in your iView content. This javascript code launches an ActiveX control “NameCtrl” which connects to the MS Office Live Comminicator and shows the online presence information. The ActiveX control is able to provide to the end user a set of user commands for Microsoft based collaboration services. The next picture shows an example of a possible implementation of an iView.
The following picture shows the online status information iView with an expanded on-object user inferface containing the user commands for Microsoft based collaboration services provided by MS Outlook and MS Communicator.
*Why not using theses features as well in the SAP NetWeaver Portal?* You have an *intranet scenario* implemented with the *SAP NetWeaver Portal* and all portal users are stored in the Microsoft Active Directory (ADS). In this case it is easy to use this online presence function. You only have to write your own iView, which retrieves the users from the ADS and include special javascript code lines in your iView content. This javascript code launches an ActiveX control “NameCtrl” which connects to the MS Office Live Comminicator and shows the online presence information. The ActiveX control is able to provide to the end user a set of user commands for Microsoft based collaboration services. The next picture shows an example of a possible implementation of an iView. The following picture shows the online status information iView with an expanded on-object user inferface containing the user commands for Microsoft based collaboration services provided by MS Outlook and MS Communicator.
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