Microsoft Office Communicator URL Fix
November 7th, 2007
If you use Microsoft Office Communicator as your internal messaging solution, you might frequently be annoyed by the fact that you can’t just click on URLs that your workmates send you. You can click on URLs in MSN Messenger, but not in Communicator (by default). This is no end of hassle if you get frequent links to great web comics.
The fix is a tiny tweak to your registry:
Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00 [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Policies\Microsoft\Communicator] "EnableURL"=dword:00000001
Done! Now you can happily click away on those links.
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I think it needs to be enabled on the server side as well….
http://www.microsoft.com/technet/prodtechnol/office/livecomm/library/updatesp1/lcsusp_9.mspx
http://blogs.3sharp.com/Blog/dougv/archive/2006/10/16/2296.aspx
I wish it was that easy…..
I stand corrected; you need to restart LCS after you run the new reg key..
I love the way Microsoft has just turned stuff off in LCS that you’d reasonably expect to be there because MSN Messenger has had that particular feature for years…
Leave it to M$ to f*ck up IM.
This doesn't work for incoming links, only links you paste to others.