MavCHAT is an enhanced messaging service that offers "presence" and chat capabilities from within MavMAIL.
Presence enables real-time status of staff, faculty and students (based on calendar information, login/activity status, and user preference) to be displayed across the University to enable users to contact the right person using a quick chat session.
Available Presence states: Available, Busy, Do Not Disturb, Be Right Back, Away.
Appear Offline is available as a presence state in the Microsoft Office Communicator 2007 R2 client only. MavCHAT and MavMAIL web interfaces do not have Appear Offline as an option.
MavCHAT can be accessed in one of three ways.
Presence is automatically updated based on your MavMAIL or Outlook Calendar. If you want to change your presence status, you can do so by clicking on the small arrow next to the Presence indicator in MavMAIL, MavCHAT or Communicator.
In MavMAIL, there is a "Contact List" underneath your mail folders.
Under the Contact List, click "Add Contacts" 
In the pop-up window, type the last name of the person you want to chat with. Click the Magnifying glass button to search for their name.
Click the person's name, click the Add button, then click OK.
Double-Click the name of the person you would like to chat with. A pop-up window will appear.
Double-Click the name of the person you would like to chat with. A pop-up window will appear.
Double-Click the name of the person you would like to chat with. A pop-up window will appear.
At this time, MavCHAT can only communicate with other MavCHAT users.
If you would like more information regarding MavCHAT, please contact the ITS Help Desk @ x6654.
MavCHAT is a subset of features available from the Microsoft Office Communication Server 2007 R2 suite. Go to http://www.microsoft.com/ocs for more information on Microsoft Office Communications Server 2007 R2.
