I'm not a big fan of OCS for a whole pile of reasons, beginning with the inflexible, lacking UI and ending with restrictions on the specific deployment I use that force me to VPN to connect. Mostly issues I wouldn't have with Jabber.
With our configuration (and possibly by default) URLs were shown as plain text and not as clickable hyperlinks. You can enable this with a Group Policy – download the OCS Policies documentation and edit and import communicator.adm, or with a registry edit.
Changing the Registry
Registry edits are quick and easy, and I was only concerned about myself, so I took that route.
Save the code code below into a text file with a .reg suffix and import it, or right click the following link and and Save As to download .reg file to enable clickable URLs in OCS. Once the registry changes have been made or imported you will need to restart your OCS client.
Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00 [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Policies\Microsoft\Communicator] "EnableURL"=dword:00000001
If you'd prefer to manually make the registry changes:
- Open regedit.ext and navigate to: HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Policies\Microsoft\Communicator
- Create a new DWORD value called EnableURL and set the value to 1 to make the URLs clickable. Set the value to 0 to have the URLs appear as plain text.
Due Diligence
Checking in with an employee at Jabber to see if hyperlinks are enabled in MomentIM.
Good to know.
