Blocking Lync from Searching Outlook Contact Folders

We all know Lync has a great feature that it can search contacts from Outlook Contact Folders. But sometimes, we do not want the Lync Client to search Contacts from some specific Outlook Contact Folders.

[Requirements]
For example, in my scenario, I have personal contacts defined in Outlook and my Lync client shows both Lync enabled users and Outlook contacts in search results.

(There are three Contacts in two Contact Folders, TestUser2 in Contacts Folder, TestUser1 and TestUser3 in CS Folder)



Yes, everything works well. But now I do not want it to search Contacts from the CS folder.

[Solution]

For this example, I will create a new client policy and configure it to not search the Outlook CS folder. I create the policy by running:

New-CsClientPolicy Identity ExcludeOutlookContactFolder ExcludedContactFolders CS

Then assign the policy to the user LyncDemo2 by running:

Grant-CsClientPolicy Identity LyncDemo2 -PolicyName ExcludeOutlookContactFolder


Run Get-CsUser command to check if the policy is assigned to the User.

After the user receives the new client policy, the same search will not show the Outlook contacts from CS folder:

Important: Please make sure both the Outlook and Lync client are up to date. In my testing, I found it might not work with some previous versions.

Reference:

http://howdouc.blogspot.com/2012/03/blocking-lync-from-searching-outlook.html

https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/gg398300.aspx

March 30th, 2015 11:10pm

The important note is unfortunately right, I'm testing it with Lync 2013 and Outlook 2010 and it does not work properly (https://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/it-IT/9684e545-d4cc-4fb3-b015-a1e37b28b1ff/exclude-outlook-contacts-from-lync-does-not-work?forum=lyncprofile).

No way to make it work also without the up to date version of Outlook? 

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May 29th, 2015 10:18am

THanks for the info!
May 30th, 2015 1:05pm

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