Lync 2013 Contact card with incorrect information

Hi Guys,

I am sure other Lycn admins would have experienced this issue before.

Lync contact card retains the old workphone number that was assigned to the user earlier. When his AD and Lync are updated with new phone number, Lync contact card adds new phone number and does not delete the old contact which causes lots of confusion. This can be resolved by deleting Lync account(20 min replication) and then recreating a new account with same details but clearly this is not ideal in cases where user has organized lots of meetings etc.

Can some one please tell me why it happens as its not always the same, some times it removes it and some times it does not.

What regkey can I use to wipe it off ?

Where is this contact card information stored?

May 26th, 2015 1:57am

Hi,

please check that contact is not stored/saved locally in Outlook,since this will not be updated.

You could also try to run Update-CsAddressBook on Your Lync server to see if it helps.

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May 26th, 2015 4:17am

Outlook contact card contains correct information and yes we already tried updating address book.

Can I delete contact card anyway?

May 27th, 2015 2:27am

This is a known behavior, sometimes the local Galcontacts.db will not be updated corect and has to be deleted manual.

You can chnage the behavior of the Lync client to use only the webdownload for contact informations through the clientpolicy.

Set the AddressBookAvailability to Websearchonly.

To fix the most problems are update to the latest client and server version and renew the adressbookfiles 

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May 27th, 2015 3:17am

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