How to make new Office Communicator session pop up in Windows 7

Question

I recently converted to Windows 7 and I usually have Office Communicator running. When someone else instigates a conversation with me, the notification pops up, but behind everything else, and as just another item in the taskbar.

How do I make it pop up, so I notice that someone is trying to contact me? It does flash once, but if I'm already in another conversation, it's very easy to overlook that a new window has opened. And if I overlook that flash, then there's very little to make me notice it after that.

Answer 1

There's no built-in way to do this on an ongoing basis, according to Microsoft.

http://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/ocspresenceim/thread/d7fe681c-e33e-4975-a121-1cccbb8a0477/

You can set an individual chat window to "stay on top" which doesn't exactly do what you request.. and doesn't last once the window is closed.

Or you can slightly improve the contrast of the window flashing. http://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/w7itprogeneral/thread/38ed53f4-753c-411d-8f88-e661daebd145

I'm trying to keep the user window on top, which should let me see which users have pending notifications next to their names.