Possible to auto populate Lync clients with default contacts

lynclync-2013

We are rolling out Lync and one request was to push out (and perhaps update) contacts to end users.

Is this feature possible in Lync?

Best Answer

I'm not aware of any official tool for this. MS treats Lync just like Outlook in that there is a "global address list" you can search but contacts are like Outlook contacts, added per account.

However, there is a developed tool to handle this:

https://lumt.codeplex.com/

Now...I've never had to use it, but I bookmarked it just in case we ever went down this path.

NOTE: Just because you got this request I would really vet it out with folks on which contacts you are wanting to "push". It may seem like a good idea but most of the time it's better to let people add their own contacts as needed.

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