- Notes: Unlike other Mac applications, you cannot add custom emoticons or emoticons from other applications to Lync for Mac. For a list of more emoticons that you can use in Lync for Mac, see the article Keyboard shortcuts for emoticons. To turn off emoticons, on the Lync menu, click Preferences Appearance.Under Emoticons, clear the Show emoticons in instant messages check box.
- Microsoft releases updates for Lync in Windows Update. Running Windows Update and installing the latest version may help solve any issues you may encounter. For Mac Users: Mac Setup: To use Microsoft Lync on Mac you will need Microsoft Communicator. This installs when you install Office 2011 for Mac 1.
- Lync integrates with other Office programs and is available for Windows, Mac, Windows Phone, iPhone, iPod, Android, and Office 365 subscribers. Lync Basic 2013 provides all the basic functionality that’s available in the full version of Lync (Lync 2013).
- With Microsoft 365, for example, information storage, computation, and software are located and managed remotely on servers owned by Microsoft. Many services you use every day are a part of the cloud—everything from web-based email to mobile banking and online photo storage.
Today, I ran across the issue of some Lync clients not being able to connect up to our Lync 2010 server. They were receiving the following error:
Sign in to Microsoft Lync failed because the service is not available or you may not be connected to the internet.
Turned out this was caused by having an invalid SSL certificate. The reason the certificate was invalid was this particular Mac was not apart of the domain and therefore the root CA’s certificate was not trusted. Simply importing the root certificate into the keychain logged the user right in.
Microsoft Lync For Mac 2016
Click through these directories: 'Lync' 'Install' 'PC' 'Lync 2013 with SP1.' To install the software, click 'setup.' To burn a CD image of the software for a later install, go back up to 'Lync 2013 with SP1,' then click 'DVD image' and save the enclosed file. Ensure that you have 'admin' rights to your computer.