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SKYPE FOR BUSINESS MAC ADD EXTERNAL CONTACTS UPDATE

I wanted to write this blog article to add clarity on how external contacts can appear in Lync Online in a very limited scenario:ġ. However, it does not mention Lync Online. SAMAccountName, displayname, and CN cannot be blank.īrajesh Panda wrote a fantastic walkthrough for modifying GALSync to include the msRTCSIP-PrimaryUserAddress attribute.

mailNickname can be populated with the contents of sAMAccountName.

When the targetaddress field is populated, be sure to pre-pend with SMTP: in front of the email address.

When populating the msRTCSIP-PrimaryUserAddress field, make sure to pre-pend with the sip: in front of the address.

For a list of which attributes are synced by DirSync, click ( here). Additionally, mailnickname and targetaddress is required for Azure Active Directory Synchronization to export the object to Office 365 so that it is accessible for the Lync Online users.

By default GALSync does not replicate the SIP address attribute “msRTCSIP-PrimaryUserAddress”, so GALSync must be modified to include this attribute.

The last requirement is to have the ability to search for the Lync external contacts within the Lync client itself. Both companies have enabled federation.īoth companies would like a shared Global Address List (GAL), and they plan to use Microsoft FIM 2010 R2 GALSync, so that user objects in one forest are copied as contact objects in the other forest. One company, ABC Corp has Lync 2010 on-premises and the other company, XYZ Corp has Lync Online. Let’s assume that two companies plan to merge and they want to have Instant Messaging and Presence between the two companies. Here is an interesting scenario that reveals a lot about how Lync Online operates.

SKYPE FOR BUSINESS MAC ADD EXTERNAL CONTACTS UPDATE

Update : I just updated this article to include a previously undocumented dependency, that both Lync and Outlook must be on the same version for this to work.

Skype for business mac add external contacts