Polycom VVX400 manual Using Advanced Features, Using Buddy Lists

Using Advanced Features

This chapter describes the advanced features available on your Polycom phone. Advanced features available for Polycom VVX 400 and 410 phones include joining Microsoft® Outlook® meetings on your phone, using your computer’s keyboard and mouse to control calls, viewing web content, and viewing other phone users’ presence statuses on your phone. Ask your system administrator about which advanced features are available for your phone.

This chapter shows you how to:

∙Manage buddies

∙Integrate with Microsoft Lync Server 2010

∙View the browser

∙Broadcast messages using Push-to-Talk and group paging

∙Use the Calendar feature

∙Use the Polycom Desktop Connector to link your computer keyboard and mouse to your phone

∙Log into other phones

∙Lock your phone

∙Access features with your login credentials

Using Buddy Lists

A buddy list is a list of users and devices whose status, or presence, you can monitor from your phone. You can view when your contacts update their presence setting, such as Be right back, Out to lunch, or Busy, and in real time from your Buddy list. You can also view your buddies’ statuses from Lines view and Home view.

This section shows you how to do the following:

∙Update your presence status

∙Set up and manage a Buddy list

∙Block people from monitoring your status

∙Monitor buddies from your phone

Note: Contacts and Microsoft Lync Server 2010

If your phone is configured to work with Microsoft Lync Server 2010, the way you manage buddies or Lync contacts is different. For information about the differences when registered with Lync Server, see Integrating with Microsoft Lync Server 2010.

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