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A company called Eventure has produces what looks to be the very first add-on for Office Communicator 2007.

Called “Communicator Plus!”, Eventure has produced a beta of a product that promises to be an extraordinary way to manage many aspects of Office Communicator 2007 that are frankly lacking today. 

For example:

1. AUTO RESPONDER
   Communicator Plus! allows you to set an auto responder message which will be sent out to your selected list of recipients if they start a conversation while you are away or busy in a meeting.
2. QUICK TEXT
   Save commonly used instant messages and associate them with a hot key. No more typing the same text over and over again.
3. CUSTOM ALERTS
   With custom popup and sound alerts you will never miss important updates and participants especially in multi party conversations.
4. PERSONALIZED PRESENCE STATES
   Office Communicator 2007 allows you to create four custom away or busy presence states, Communicator Plus! allows you to configure them conveniently.
5. EVENT LOGGING
   Never miss a thing! Contact sign-ins and sign-outs, status changes, display name and phone number changes. Everything can be logged and can be archived in Excel spreadsheets. You can also monitor event viewer in real-time to analyze communicator events or view contact status updates.
6. DESKTOP CONTACTS
   You can now view any desired contact on your desktop in the form of small floating windows. You can right click on a contact to create its contact card. What more? You can customize contact card colors, transparency color etc…
7. ADVANCED CHAT ARCHIVAL
   Communicator Plus! allows you to log all conversations locally in a more flexible way. You no longer need Microsoft Outlook 2007 to log conversations! Logs are displayed hierarchically and sorted by date and participants, plus you can perform advanced searches to locate conversations quickly.

Contact Eventure at complus@eventure.biz to be added to the Beta program.