The Lync 2010 Presence Indicator gives you on-demand visibility into users’ availability, letting you select the best time and place to engage and collaborate. And, this real-time status is displayed throughout all Microsoft Office applications, including Microsoft Office, Microsoft Word and Microsoft SharePoint, as well as Microsoft Outlook and Windows Phones using Communicator Mobile, so both you and your colleagues know the best way to stay connected.

	Status Text	Description
	Available	The contact you wish to reach is online and currently free to speak with you.
	Busy In a Call In a Conference In a Meeting	The contact is online but is involved in some other activity. These include: On a Call: The contact is in a voice or video conversation with someone else. In a Conference: The contact is chatting with more than one person by phone, voice, video, and/or application sharing. In a Meeting: The contact’s Microsoft Outlook calendar displays that they have a scheduled meeting at that time.
	Do Not Disturb	The contact is online but does not wish to be disturbed. Do Not Disturb mode also enables the user to specifically select their level of privacy by choosing options that enable no display alerts to options that allow alerts from a specified workgroup.
	Away	The contact is online but not currently available.  Reasons may include: The contact’s computer has been inactive for longer than a time period that is specified by the user (15 minutes is default). The contact’s Microsoft Outlook calendar or Out of Office Assistant indicates that he or she is out of the office. The contact is temporarily unavailable. The contact has manually set his or her presence status to Away or Appear Away.
	Off Work	The contact is not at work at this time.
	Offline	The contact is not currently online. This status may be displayed for the following reasons: The contact has not signed in. The contact has blocked you from seeing their status.
	Presence unknown	Microsoft Lync Server 2010 is unable to determine the contact’s status.
	Blocked	The user has blocked the corresponding contact. To the blocked contact the user appears to be offline.

Lync Features and Pricing

	Standard	Enterprise
PC to PC Instant Messaging
PC to PC File Transfer
Rich Presence indicators
PC to PC Audio
PC to PC Video
Conference Attendee
Multi-party audio and video conferencing
Conference Presenter
	$4.99/user/month	$8.99/user/month

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