Presence is a combination of availability and willingness to meet. Lync determines your status automatically, based on the entries on your Office 365 calendar and your current Lync activity. You can also set your status manually. Note: Only those people you have added to your Lync contacts can see your presence. Personal Status Message Use this field to write a note about your day (for example, “working from home” or “in the office until 3:00 PM”). Others will see this message next to your entry in their contacts list. If you have not entered a note, you will see “Click to create a personal status message” Your contacts will not see this message.
Launch Skype for Business Click the start button and navigate to the Microsoft Office 2013 Folder and select Skype for Business (Mac users: open Applications directory and click on Microsoft Lync ). You should be signed in automatically if you're logged into Active Directory (AD). Oct 22, 2016 The Outlook Skype for Business Contacts folder contains stale contact information (it isn't updating). This stale data may still sync to Skype for Business contacts. In these scenarios, the Outlook Skype for Business (formerly Lync) Contacts folder doesn't sync with your Skype for Business contacts as the folder previously did.
Presence Indicator The colored bar on the left of your picture / generic icon represents your current status. A similar bar appears next to each of your contacts. Your status is set automatically, based on your Outlook calendar and you current Lync activity, but you can also set it manually.
Manually Setting Presence Selecting the drop-down menu beneath your name provides you with a selection of presences to set for yourself including available, busy, do not disturb, be right back, off work and appear away.
Long time no see but I’m still around, doing some Exchange 2010, 2013, 2016 and Office 365 (mostly Exchange Online but also a bit of Skype For Business – IM and presence only for now) stuff like migrations, knowledge transfer, etc So a couple of months ago I was asked the following questions: what are the requirements, server-wise, and/or client-wise, to be able to see the Skype for Business presence light for users we add in Outlook To:, Cc: and Bcc: fields in Outlook? same question as above, what’s needed to be able to schedule a Skype for Business meeting from Outlook? (so that we get the Skype phone conference local and toll numbers, the conference number, the PIN, etc in the Outlook meeting) For the two above specific questions, the important thing to keep in mind is that these two particular features: presence light in Outlook + schedule a Skype for Business meeting, there is no interaction between the Skype for Business client and the Exchange server. Also, there is no interaction between the Outlook client and the Skype for Business (or Lync) server. Everything go through the Skype For Business add-on for Outlook! Yes you heard me: these two features are a client-to-client only interaction, through the Skype for Business for Outlook add-on!
But you need a few conditions for Outlook to be able to “link” these information with Skype. You must install the Skype for Business for Outlook add-on, and the user with which you’re logged in on Outlook must have the Skype SIP address in his list of E-Mail addresses. NOTE: the Outlook user’s e-mail addresses are configured on the user’s Active Directory properties, through the Exchange Management Console or the Exchange Management Shell (or the Exchange Admin Center for Exchange 2013, 2016, Exchange Online) Let’s take a user, randomly named “ Sammy Krosoft”. His Exchange e-mail address is. He’s on an On-Prem installation of Exchange 2010 (serving e2010domain.com SMTP domain). Now let’s assume he has a Skype for Business account in Office365, on a domain called “ sammyservices.onmicrosoft.com” and his SIP address for Skype is ”. We want Outlook to display the presence indicator/light of other Skype users from his Skype organization, and also to be able to get Skype meeting details when organizing a Skype meeting from that messaging application.
So concretely: 1- if not already done, install the Skype for Business for Outlook add-on, 2- the ” mailbox user must have the “ SIP: ” custom address his list of E-Mail address NOTE: a “ SIP” address is not an SMTP address, there is no mail routing with this. It just serves as a “link” to enable Outlook to use the Skype for Business information (presence and meeting connection details) of a user logged in his Skype client with that SIP: address on the same workstation.
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3- that’s pretty much it! Let’s open his “E-mail addresses” properties in Exchange, and see what this ” user has: He just has an SMTP address! That’s not enough to enable his Outlook account to retrieve the Lync information we want! We must add that “SIP: ” entry! Let’s do it: Add- Custom Address, and type the SIP addres on the “E-mail address” field, and “SIP” as the E-mail type on the below graphical input box, or if you use Powershell and the “Set-Mailbox” cmdlet, that would be literally “SIP:[email protected]”. So on the GUI you have to type “SIP” and the sip address separately: And what will we see in the E-Mail addresses window: different domains for Exchange E-mail services and for Skype for Business we’ll see soon if it works.
The results The concrete results from my Lab environment – reminder: e2010domain.com is my on-premise Exchange domain, and sammyservices.onmicrosoft.com is my Skype for Business’ tenant domain. Logging in Skype for Business (O365, SIP address – his Display Name is “ Sammy KROSOFT” sorry if it doesn’t sound serious) - Then logging in Outlook (2010, 2013 or 2016, your choice, just ensure you have all latest updates for all – especially OL2010) with on-premise account, notice the presence lights for users on the To: / Cc: fields: now presence light magically there when writing a new mail. Hi, We have a similar setup, E2016 on-prem, and O365 for skype for business. The smtp address matches up with the 0365/skype account so presense and skype meetings work, but a real downside to this is you can no longer easily see Exchange presense (based on the user’s exchange calendar) once signed into skype for business it only seems to check that. Many in our organization don’t use skype for business but use their exchange calendar. Is there any remedy for this, where we can set it to use just exchange presense or skype for business presense if available and if not revert to exchange?
Hi Floyd, Rule of thumb: in Exchange, you should have the SIP:[email protected] on the list of Proxy Addresses of that user (replace O365domain.com with whatever your O365 domain is, and whatever is setup as SIP address on your O365 Skype account), and this user – the one who has the SIP:[email protected] in his ProxyAddresses – should be logged on in Outlook. Also the user with should be logged on Skype for Business. = That will make the presence light (and meeting details) to work on Outlook.
Then there is the setup of the Presence light (or jewel) according to the Exchange / Outlook calendar info = This is achieved via the EWS connection that the SKype client is making. To achieve that, the Skype client account (on O365) must have the Azure account’s email attribute (or the primary SMTP address on the E-mail addresses properties on the O365 account) set to the primary address of your Exchange Onprem user account (like, to be able to build its query, and then through Autodiscover get the EWS connection to your OnPrem server. Let me know if this makes sense? I’m running into some challenges with getting presense to work with on-prem Exchange and O365 Skype For Business. I seems that the SfB client will poll/refresh the Exchange Calendar info upon launch, but I am not sure of how often it will refresh.
If I launch the SfB app and then 5 min later get invited to a meeting that starts in 10 min, the SfB client will not update my presence status to show “In a Meeting”. If I manually exit the SfB app and then relaunch, it will automatically refresh by presence status to “In a Meeting”. There doesn’t appear to currently be a way to configure the “WebServicePollInterval” or “CalendarStatePublicationInterval” policy settings like there is with an on-prem SfB deployment. I have worked with Office 365 Support on this issue a few times and they don’t have any answers.
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