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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.