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2011When using the Communicator for Mac 2011 client with Enterprise Voice, there appears to be a bug with the graphical user interface. Once you enable a user for Enterprise Voice in OCS 2007 R2 or Lync, the calling icon in the Communicator for Mac 2011 client should automatically switch from a microphone to a telephone. Well, what do you do if the telephone icon never actually appears? Read on…

Microsoft Communicator 2011 allows Mac users to communicate and collaborate with Office Windows users and of course features complete integration with Microsoft Outlook (now available for Mac) and every other component of Microsoft Office for Mac 2011. For example, the status options of Microsoft Communicator 2011 are set automatically. Microsoft Communicator For Mac 2011; Microsoft Communicator For Mac Free Download; Dec 25, 2017 The latest version of Microsoft Communicator is 13.1 on Mac Informer. It is a perfect match for Instant Messaging & VoIP in the Communication category. The app is developed by Microsoft and its user rating is 3.6 out of 5. Oct 04, 2010 Intended for.


The interesting thing that we determined during testing was that even though the phone icon didn’t display, the Mac user could receive inbound PSTN calls. After further testing and research, the issue appeared to be caused by a blank Telephone attribute in Active Directory.
To resolve the issue, follow the steps below to force the change to occur. If you’re patient though, the address book sync will take care of itself by default every night at 1:30AM.
Issue – Microphone Icon Not Automatically Switching to the Telephone Icon

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Steps to Resolve the Issue on Lync
  1. Populate the user’s AD telephone attribute (e.g. 555-555-5555 or +15555555555)
  2. Wait about 5 mins for Lync to pick up the change (by default it should only take 1 minute)
  3. Open the Lync Management Shell and execute “Update-CsAddressBook”
    1. This step assumes that the Address Book service is configured correctly and is successfully outputting full and delta ABS files
  4. Open the Event Viewer on the Lync Front End and ensure that the address book query has executed successfully
  5. Close the Communicator for Mac 2011 client
  6. Once the ABS query has completed successfully, search the Mac for the galcontacts files. You should receive two results. Delete both files.
  7. Launch the Communicator for Mac 2011 client and wait up to an hour for the client to generate the latest galcontacts file
  8. Once the Mac client has the freshest galcontacts file, the microphone icon will change to a telephone icon and enterprise voice should work as normal
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Result – Telephone Icon Displayed

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Microsoft Office for Mac 2011
Microsoft Office for Mac 2011 applications shown on Mac OS X Snow Leopard
Developer(s)Microsoft
Initial releaseOctober 26, 2010; 9 years ago
Stable release
Operating systemMac OS X 10.5.8 to macOS 10.14.6
TypeOffice suite
License
Websitewww.microsoft.com/mac/

Microsoft Office for Mac 2011 is a version of the Microsoft Officeproductivity suite for Mac OS X. It is the successor to Microsoft Office 2008 for Mac and is comparable to Office 2010 for Windows. Office 2011 was followed by Microsoft Office 2016 for Mac released on September 22, 2015, requiring a Mac with an x64 Intel processor and OS X Yosemite or later. Office for Mac 2011 is no longer supported as of October 10, 2017.[4]

New features[edit]

Microsoft Office 2011 includes more robust enterprise support and greater feature parity with the Windows edition. Its interface is now more similar to Office 2007 and 2010 for Windows, with the addition of the ribbon. Support for Visual Basic for Applications macros has returned after having been dropped in Office 2008.[5][6] Purchasing the Home Premium version of Office for Mac will not allow telephone support automatically to query any problems with the VBA interface. There are however, apparently, according to Microsoft Helpdesk, some third party applications that can address problems with the VBA interface with Office for Mac.[citation needed] In addition, Office 2011 supports online collaboration tools such as OneDrive and Office Web Apps, allowing Mac and Windows users to simultaneously edit documents over the web. It also includes limited support for Apple's high-density Retina Displays, allowing the display of sharp text and images, although most icons within applications themselves are not optimized for this.

A new version of Microsoft Outlook, written using Mac OS X's Cocoa API, returns to the Mac for the first time since 2001 and has full support for Microsoft Exchange Server 2007.[7] It replaces Entourage, which was included in Office 2001, X, 2004 and 2008 for Mac.[8]

Limitations[edit]

2011

Office for Mac 2011 has a number of limitations compared to Office 2010 for Windows. It does not support ActiveX controls,[9] or OpenDocument Format.[10][11] It also cannot handle attachments in Rich Text Format e-mail messages sent from Outlook for Windows, which are delivered as winmail.dat attachments.[citation needed] It also has several human language limitations, such as lack of support for right-to-left languages such as Arabic, Persian, and Hebrew [12] and automatic language detection. [13]

Microsoft does not support CalDAV and CardDAV in Outlook, so there is no way to sync directly Outlook through iCloud. Outlook also does not allow the user to disable Cached Exchange Mode, unlike the Windows version, and it is therefore not possible to connect to an Exchange Server without downloading a local cache of mail and calendar data. [14]

Additionally, Office for Mac 2011 also has a shorter lifecycle than Office 2010. Support for Office for Mac 2011 was originally slated to end on January 12, 2016, but because Office for Mac 2016 did not come out until July 2015, Microsoft extended support until October 10, 2017. [15] As 32-bit software, it will not run on macOS High Sierra or later versions of macOS X.[16][17]

Editions[edit]

Two editions are available to the general public. Home & Student provides Word, Excel and PowerPoint, while Home & Business adds Outlook and increased support.[18]Microsoft Messenger 8 is included with both editions, and Microsoft Communicator for Mac 2011, which communicates with Microsoft Lync Server, is available only to volume licensing customers.[19] Office 2011 requires an Intel Mac running Mac OS X 10.5.8 or later.[20]

Comparison of editions
Applications and servicesHome & StudentHome & BusinessAcademicStandard
WordIncludedIncludedIncludedIncluded
PowerPointIncludedIncludedIncludedIncluded
ExcelIncludedIncludedIncludedIncluded
OutlookNot includedIncludedIncludedIncluded
Communicator or LyncNot includedNot includedIncludedIncluded
Office Web AppsIncludedIncludedIncludedIncluded
Remote Desktop ConnectionNot includedIncludedIncludedIncluded
Information Rights ManagementIncludedIncludedIncludedIncluded
Windows SharePoint Services SupportNot includedIncludedIncludedIncluded
Technical support90 days1 year90 days?

The Home & Student edition is available in a single license for one computer and a family pack for three computers. The Home & Business edition is available in a single license for one computer and a multi-pack for two computers. The Standard edition is only available through Volume Licensing.[21] The Academic edition was created for higher education students, staff and faculty, and includes one installation.[22] Office for Mac is also available as part of Microsoft's Office 365 subscription programme.

Development[edit]

Microsoft announced Office 2011 in 2009.[23] There were 6 beta versions released:

  • Beta 1
  • Beta 2 (Version 14.0.0, Build 100326)
  • Beta 3 (Build 100519)—announced on May 25, 2010[24]
  • Beta 4 (Build 100526)
  • Beta 5 (Build 100709)
  • Beta 6 (Build 100802)

Access to beta versions was by invitation only,[25] although leaked copies were circulated among Mac file sharing websites.[26]

The final version was released to manufacturing on September 10, 2010,[27] was available to volume license customers a day later,[28] and made available to the general public on October 26, 2010.[29] Service Pack 1 was released on April 12, 2011.[30]

See also[edit]

References[edit]

Microsoft Communicator For Mac 2011
  1. ^https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=55942
  2. ^'Microsoft Lifecycle Policy: Office 2011'. Support. Microsoft. Retrieved February 21, 2018.
  3. ^'Microsoft Lifecycle Policy: Lync 2011'. Support. Microsoft. Retrieved February 21, 2018.
  4. ^'Microsoft Lifecycle Policy: Office 2011'. Support. Microsoft. Retrieved February 21, 2018.
  5. ^Keizer, Gregg (May 14, 2008). 'Microsoft will bring back macros to Mac Office in 2011'. Computerworld. Retrieved April 21, 2010.
  6. ^Seff, Jonathan (May 13, 2008). 'Microsoft to bring back Visual Basic in Office for Mac'. Macworld. Retrieved April 21, 2010.
  7. ^'How to obtain support for Microsoft Outlook for Mac 2011 connectivity problems with Exchange Server'. Support (34.0 ed.). Microsoft. September 12, 2013.
  8. ^Miller, Dan (February 11, 2010). 'Microsoft Announces Office for Mac 2011'. Macworld. Retrieved October 29, 2010.
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  10. ^answer from Michel Bintener Microsoft MVP (Macintosh), Discussion in the forum of a user of Microsoft Office:Mac Archived February 13, 2011, at WebCite
  11. ^Office 2011: Mac-Version mit Outlook, aber ohne Opendocument, in German. Archived February 13, 2011, at WebCite
  12. ^Morgenstern, David. 'Microsoft boosts languages, proofing tools in Office 2011 for Mac, Unicode right-to-left support missing'. The Apple Core. ZDNet. Retrieved November 17, 2010.
  13. ^http://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/mac/forum/macoffice2011-macword/how-can-i-set-word-2011-to-detect-different/ea5f2561-1ef5-4762-93a7-298c52579ab8
  14. ^http://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/mac/forum/macoffice2011-macoutlook/is-there-any-way-to-disable-cached-exchange-mode/fe6b090e-fdd6-4666-8e54-db9e5348428e?msgId=f34acd1e-22e3-426d-872e-bccae2821420
  15. ^https://support.office.com/en-us/article/Support-is-ending-for-Office-for-Mac-2011-559b72b1-e045-4c73-bad3-d7f1841b9e8c
  16. ^Haslam, Karen. 'Which Mac apps won't work in macOS Catalina?'. Macworld. Retrieved October 31, 2019.
  17. ^Weir, Andy (June 5, 2017). 'Microsoft says Office for Mac 2011 will not be supported on macOS 10.13 High Sierra'. Neowin. Retrieved October 18, 2020.
  18. ^'Office for Mac 2011—Compare'. Microsoft. Retrieved October 27, 2010.
  19. ^'Announcing Communicator for Mac'. Office for Mac Blog. Microsoft. September 24, 2010. Archived from the original on July 17, 2011. Retrieved November 4, 2010.
  20. ^'Office System Requirements'. Microsoft Office for Mac. Microsoft. Retrieved November 5, 2010.
  21. ^Michaels, Philip (August 2, 2010). 'Microsoft sets pricing, October release for Office 2011'. Macworld. Retrieved November 7, 2010.
  22. ^'Office for Mac 2011 Hitting Store Shelves This October'. Microsoft Office Press. Microsoft. Retrieved November 19, 2010.
  23. ^Snell, Jason (August 13, 2009). 'Microsoft: Next Mac Office due late 2010 with Outlook'. Macworld. Retrieved November 14, 2009.
  24. ^McLean, Prince (May 25, 2010). 'Microsoft's Office 2011 beta 3 for Mac gets new icons'. AppleInsider. Retrieved October 29, 2010.
  25. ^Sams, Brad (July 25, 2010). 'Office 2011 for Mac beta invites sent out'. Neowin.net. Retrieved October 29, 2010.
  26. ^Paliath, Paul. 'Beta 2 of Microsoft Office 2011 leaked'. GeekSmack. Archived from the original on April 13, 2010. Retrieved April 14, 2010.
  27. ^'Office for Mac 2011 hits RTM'. Office for Mac Blog. Microsoft. September 10, 2010. Archived from the original on August 12, 2011. Retrieved November 4, 2010.
  28. ^Weintraub, Seth (September 21, 2010). 'Office for Mac hits Microsoft volume licensing servers'. 9to5 Mac. Retrieved September 27, 2010.
  29. ^Mac Mojo Team (September 28, 2010). 'Office for Mac 2011 in the Store This October'. Office for Mac Blog. Microsoft. Archived from the original on August 12, 2011. Retrieved October 29, 2010.
  30. ^'Microsoft Office for Mac Downloads and Updates'. Office For Mac. Microsoft. Retrieved September 16, 2011.
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