I cannot share my PC in Intranet of my Organization in Windows 7 through Office communicator 2005. In all earlier OS it was working fine, but in Win7 I cannot share my Pc as well as other cannot share their Pcs with me. When I have asked Technical support team of my organization, they have answered that Microsoft has disabled some features in Windows 7 and hence we cannot share our PCs in Windows 7 environmet.Can you help me how to enable these features through which I can share my PC via office communicator 2005?Alternet is also welcomed, viz using Netmeeting..Best Regards, hasmukh ghatala

Hi Hasmukh Ghatala, Thanks for using Microsoft Answers! I'm moving your thread to the Windows 7 Misc forums in the TechNet community. They'll be able to better assist you there.Cody C Microsoft Answers Support Engineer Visit our Microsoft Answers Feedback Forum and let us know what you think.

Read this article to see if that fits your scenario http://support.microsoft.com/kb/898856, temporarily turn off Windows 7 explorer and try after reading the article. MCSE, MCSA, MCDST [If this post helps to resolve your issue, please click the "Mark as Answer" or "Helpful" button at the top of this message. By marking a post as Answered, or Helpful you help others find the answer faster.]

Thanks Cdobbs for replying.I have checked the way you have suggested to find the port no. 1503, but there was not any PID having port no 1503. Even when I have tried after keeping my comminicator chat on with PC sharing request sending, it has not occupied the port no 1503.Still I am getting the same erroe message in my communicator as " A data sharing session could not be established with Manish Kumar Sudhirbhai Nagar. Please try again. If the problem persists, please contact your system administrator. " Best Regards, hasmukh ghatala

Hi, This forum is mainly for Windows 7 issues. As your question is for Office Communicator 2005, please discuss in Office Communicator Forums Or contact related product support for more assistances. Office Communicator 2005 Solution Center Arthur Xie - MSFT

Hi,I am having also the same problem. Office communicator 2005 is working fine but unable to share desktop with others. I think this is due to Netmeeting which is disabled in Windows 7. The only solution left is upgrade to Microsoft Communicator 2007.-Atique Khan

This is not a complete solution. It means Windows 7 is not compatible with Microsoft Office Communicator 2005. MS must provide patches for the older application or they can discontinue the older application to be used at the client end and enforce them to buy a new version of the product. As business is mainly depends on interoperability of the internal project team for any stream of people, we cannot neglect this issue. If it continue to persist, people will not go for using the Windows 7 which is found incompatible with their own application products.Best Regards, hasmukh ghatala