Setting up Catalina in Office Communicator 2007
In a previous post, I'M UC Enabled. I shared with everyone that i'm UC ready.
Well, i've been enjoying it so far. There are a lot of excitement around it. I could now make calls from anywhere and receive calls anywhere. Really nice.
Just earlier on, a friend, Kit Kai, was asking me how my Catalina works. Well, Catalina is designed to work with Office Communicator 2007. Its really just a "speaker" and "mic" peripheral, of course, it is more than that.
After you plug in Catalina, its drivers are loaded. From there, you load up OCS2007. From Tools, locate "Setup Audio and Video". In my case, i wanted to use Catalina with my Creative Headset with Mic to talk in OCS2007.
| Through the first dialogue, i chose to use catalina as my handset. The catalina has a hook and off hook feature just like a normal phone. If i lift up the handset, OCS will pop up on my screen and i get a chance to key in the number i want to call. If someone calls me, i could just lift up the handset to answer without touching my laptop. |  |
 | On the next screen, for speaker/microphone setup, i chose to use my laptop's speaker and mic. I plug in my Creative Headset HS-390 and took over the laptop speaker and mic. |
Using the above settings, i'm able to choose if i want to use my Creative headset, or the catalina. The headset is convenient, i don't have to lug around Catalina to make a phone call. The next thing i'm trying to explore is that Catalina comes with its own headset, want to try grab hold of that and see how it works.
/Dennis