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Lync User Guide
The Lync 2010 client allows you to access the University of Arizona’s Unified Communications
solution. Lync provides real-time instant message (IM) Audio and Video calling and also
provides multiparty IM, Audio Video Conferencing and Collaboration.
Installing Lync
1. First you will need to download the Lync Client software from the UA Site License page:
https://sitelicense.arizona.edu/uaconnect-onsite
2. Before you launch Lync for the first time, you will need to install the latest Cumulative
Update (CU). As of this writing the current version is CU5. It is very important that you
apply these updates before starting Lync for the first time. After installing the CU, a
reboot may be required. You can download the CU installer on the Microsoft site:
32 bit: http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=25055
64 bit: http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=14490
Before starting it is important to note that you will receive some “sign-in didn’t work” error
messages, this is expected behavior for the first sign-in.
Lync First Run
1. After you have installed and updated Lync, launch the program from the Start Menu.
2. If your computer is joined to the CatNet Active Directory, you will automatically be
signed-in, you may proceed directly to the Lync Client Overview section.
2 | P a g e 4. Once you click the Sign In button you will receive a “Sign-in didn’t work” notification. This is
normal, Click the Close button.
3 | P a g e 6. You will receive the “Sign-in didn’t work” notification one last time. Click the Close button.
5 | P a g e 8. You should now be signed in, if this is the initial logon you will be presented with a “Start Here”
screen which can be used to view an introduction video and personalize your Lync experience.
Introduction/Personalization Screen Start here Screen
6 | P a g e 9. Click the Presence Menu below your name and click Exit. The Lync Client will Sign-off
and close.
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Lync Client Overview
When you sign into Lync, you have three display options available: Contacts: The contact list is displayed
Activity Feeds: Displays your contacts activity feeds (Out of Office messages, personal notes etc.) Conversations: Conversation history, past conversations are viewable here (stored in Exchange)
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Setting Display Options
Just below the Contact List “search” magnifying glass you will see the Contacts list display options menu. Expand the menu and you will be able change how your contacts are presented.
Also you can change how your contacts are sorted/displayed. By default “Groups” sorting is selected, this means that your Contacts list is displayed by Group membership.
If you select “Status”, your contact list is sorted based on your contacts presence status.
If you select “Relationship”, your contact list is sorted based upon the Privacy Relationship you selected for each contact (to be explained).
Just below the Contact List “search” magnifying glass, you will see the Contacts list display options menu. Expand the menu and you will be able change how contacts are presented.
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Setting Lync General Options
You can configure your Lync options by clicking the gear icon.
Once you click on the gear icon, you are presented with the Lync General Options screen:
The first Option screen General allows you to set some basic options in Lync. 1
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Setting Lync Personal Options
If you click on Personal on the left hand pane, you will be able to change Personal Options.
My Account
You can set Lync to launch and sign-on when you log sign-on to Windows Personal Information Manager This setting should be configured as “Microsoft Exchange or Microsoft Outlook”
Update my presence based on Calendar information:
This setting will allow Lync to determine you presence state based upon your Exchange/Outlook calendar. The options below
determine how much information will be shown.
Save instant message conversations in my email Conversation History folder:
This setting will allow Lync to store conversation history in your mail folders. You can also specify if you’d like call logs stored there as well.
Save my Lync contacts in my personal contacts folder on the Exchange Server:
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Setting Lync Status Options
If you click on Status on the left hand pane, you will be able to change your Status Options.
Under the Status options, you set Lync to change your status based upon system or Lync inactivity. You can also set presence privacy options based upon personal preference or UITS policy.
Lync Status Options:
Setting Lync Alert Options
If you click Alerts on the left hand pane, you will be able to change your Alerts Options.
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Setting Lync Ringtones and Sound Options
If you click Ringtones and Sounds on the left hand pane, you will be able to set your Ringtone and Sound Options.
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Audio Device Options
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Lync Video Device Options
If you click Video Device on the left hand pane, you will be able to set your Video Device Options. In this screen you can specify which web cam you would like to use for video calls and change any Driver Based Webcam Settings if necessary.
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Instant Messaging and Presence
Presence information enables you to approach colleagues at the right time with the right form of
communication, to lead to a more productive work environment. Presence is a collection of information that includes availability, willingness to communicate, additional notes (such as location and status), and how you can be contacted.
Presence is enhanced in Lync 2010 with pictures, location information, and a default set of presence states that includes “Off Work,” “Do Not Disturb,” “Be Right Back,” “Available,” “Busy,” and “In a Conference.”
You may set different levels of contacts, each of which can view different levels of presence information. By simply looking at a Contacts list, users can find everything they need to know at a glance. Simple colored icons indicate other users’ presence status, and picture and location are also shown.
With Instant Messaging in Lync, you can quickly message your peers in timely fashion.
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As indicated in the table, some presence states can be set by the Lync you manually, some are set automatically by Lync, and some can be set either way. Keep in mind, that any presence state you set manually will stay in place until you change it back to Available.
17 | P a g e Once signed onto Lync, simply click the presence menu under the your name and select the desired presence state.
Set a personal note
The presence states in Lync cannot be customized or added to. However you may want to provide additional details about where you are or what you are doing. This is accomplished by setting a “personal note”.
To set a personal note, click the note display area, this is the text balloon above your name. Once you click on the text you can type over anything that is currently displayed.
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Setting Your Location
By default the Lync client will keep track of where you are, as you log on from different locations. The location name you specify corresponds to your current network connection. For example, you may be using Lync on your office workstation, once you sign off and connect from your home computer or mobile device, conference room etc. Lync will prompt you for your location and depending on policy, display your active location information to your contacts. Once you set a particular location name, Lync will remember it, so the next time it detects that you are on that network connection, the location name that is displayed with your presence will change to reflect it.
To set your location information, click the location menu box just below the presence menu.
You can now enter and commit your current location information.
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19 | P a g e If privacy is a concern, it is possible to hide your location information. Simply click on the location menu arrow.
Uncheck “Show Others My Location”, your location information will no longer be published. The “NO” icon which appears the left of your location information will appear to notify you that location
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Managing Contacts
Adding a Contact
In order to communicate with someone in Lync you will need to add him or her to your contact list. Once you have signed on to Lync, you will need to enter either the user’s name or email address in the “Find a Contact” box.
In this case, we will use the users e-mail address. Enter the e-mail address and you will see the search results appear below. Once the contact appears, you have the option to IM or Call immediately.
21 | P a g e You can add the user to a New Contact Group, or one of your existing groups.
Contact has been successfully added, and now appears in the contact list. 1
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22 | P a g e Removing Contacts:
To remove a contact from the contact list and any associated groups. Right-Click the contact you wish to remove. You will be presented with the contacts option menu, select “Remove from Contact List”. The contact will be removed.
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23 | P a g e Viewing Contact Information and Availability:
It is possible to view expanded information of your Lync contacts. Click on a Lync contact, you will see the users contact card appear on the left in addition to communication options: E-Mail, IM, Audio Call etc.
Click the arrow on the bottom right to expand the contact card. You will now see the contacts directory information such as: Phone Numbers, Office Location and E-mail address. Also, you can view immediate availability information based on Exchange Calendar data, without having to open Outlook.
24 | P a g e Initiating Conversations and Calls
In addition to the Right-Click options listed above, you can initiate an Instant Messaging Conversation with any contact simply by double-clicking it.
Instant Message Conversation:
You can elevate any in-progress IM conversation to an Audio or Video call simply by clicking the Call or Video menus. You can also add additional participants by clicking the “people” icon
25 | P a g e Collaboration and Sharing
Clicking the Share menu displays content sharing options:
Desktop: This will share your entire desktop to any participant(s) of the current conversation. This feature is useful for support or demonstration purposes.
Program Sharing: This is similar to Desktop Sharing, however instead of presenting your entire desktop to the participants, you can select which application/window to share. This is useful for users who do not wish to show their entire desktop.
Powerpoint Presentation: This option will share a Power Point presentation and display it on the participant(s) screens. You or any participant you define as a presenter can control the slide show. New Whiteboard: This option will display a Whiteboard, this is useful for collaboration and all drawings/annotations can be saved.
26 | P a g e Creating and Managing Contact Groups
You can use groups to organize your contacts. A contact can be placed into more than one group. Once you have learned how to create and manage groups, we will go over enhanced features provided by groups.
To create a group simply Sign into Lync. Once you are signed on, right click on any group , by default you should have “Frequent Contacts” and an “All Contacts” group. You will now see the contact list menu. Select “Create a New Group”
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Type in a name for the group and hit “Enter” 1
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28 | P a g e Group creation is now complete.
Deleting a Group
To delete a group, simply select it and push the “delete” key, or you may right click on the group and select Delete Group.
30 | P a g e Adding a Contact to a Group
31 | P a g e Adding Distribution Group to the Contact List
To add a Distribution group to the Contact list just type in the group name in the search bar , the results will appear below. Right click the group and it can be added to the Contact list.
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33 | P a g e Group Actions
Once you have populated your groups, you can expand the group, view the presence state of each individual contact and perform group actions. In the previous image above, you can see that when the group is selected, you can initiate a group communicator (audio) call to all group members at once. If you right click the group you can view the other communications options available.
In addition to starting a Group Instant Message Conversation/Conference, you can start a group Audio or Video Conference. Keep in mind that all participants must have a microphone and audio device. You can even send an email message to the group or schedule a conference if Outlook is installed.
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With Lync you set privacy relationships to control how much of your presence information others can see. Contacts are assigned one of five privacy relationships, and each relationship provides access to a different set of information. The following table describes each privacy relationship, and what
information is made visible. An asterisk (*) next to a presence information item in the table indicates that if this attribute is defined in CatNet AD to be visible, it will be visible to everyone regardless of privacy relationship. A pound sign (#) indicates that the attribute is visible by default.
36 | P a g e In order to change a contacts privacy relationship, simply right click a contact, near the bottom of the menu you will see the “Change Privacy” relationship menu . When you expand the menu, you will be able to select the desired relationship.
Privacy Relationship Setting:
Tagging Contacts
You can mark or “tag” a contact in your Contacts list so that you’ll be notified when he or she becomes available. When you tag a contact, Lync will display a notification as soon as a contact’s status changes.
37 | P a g e Blocking Contacts
To Block a contact so that they cannot contact you using Lync, right-click the person you want to block and set their privacy relationship to “Blocked Contacts”.
Conferencing
One major Lync feature is Conferencing (Online Meetings). With Online Meetings, you can collaborate, share information and coordinate efforts with your peers in real-time. Voice and Video conferencing capabilities can be used from any location with an Internet connection. Meeting tools integrated into Outlook 2010 enable you to schedule a meeting or start an impromptu conference with a single click. Joining an Online Meeting
Once you have the Lync client installed and configured, joining and participating in a meeting is as simple as clicking a link. Simply double click the meetings calendar entry in Outlook, and you will see the “Join online meeting” link/url. 1
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38 | P a g e You can also join a meeting by opening the corresponding calendar entry in OWA and clicking the “Join online meeting” link :
Please note that you can still join an online meeting by clicking the Join link even if you do not have the Lync client installed however, you will be prompted to install the Lync Attendee. (The Attendee is a small install which only allows for meeting join/participation functionality).
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39 | P a g e In addition to clicking the Join Online url in the calendar item, you may also join the Online meeting by clicking the “Join Online” button in the Outlook (full client only) reminder screen:
Scheduling Online Meetings
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41 | P a g e It is also possible to schedule a new Online meeting from the standard “New Meeting” window. Simply click the “Online Meeting” button and the Online Meeting url information will be populated and you will also be able to change Online meeting options.
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