Microsoft® Office Communications Server 2007 R2 Resource Kit

Technical Details Behind the Public IM Connectivity Scenarios

To understand network message flow in the Public IM Connectivity scenarios, the following sections will look at two scenarios and the accompanying illustrations of the resulting message flows.

Scenario one: Adding a Contact in office Communicator 2007

In this scenario, the user enters an account name for a recipient that they want to send instant messages to, performs a search, and adds the recipient account name as a contact. This process has seven steps that are numerically keyed to Figure 8-9. Where possible, each step is illustrated by using a corresponding sample SIP message. The illustrative SIP output following the steps is what an administrator might see when using logging to ...