Hi all,

I have deployed Lync Server 2010 without exchange.
I need USER PRESENCE feature alone from exchange.
Could anyone tell me a Exchange deployment path to do this?
I heard that providing a exchange mail box to all the user will provide this presence feature.


Thanks and Regards,
ArunKumar.J

I am not sure I understand the question. By deploying just Lync you will get user presence. Are you referring to presence information from calendars (Free/Busy) or the ability to see the presence icons within Outlook?

Agree with Georg, you will get user presence without Exchange, it should know when you're in a conference, know when you're away, and you can manually set it.  What Exchange gets you is presence updates based upon items in your calendar.  If you deploy mailboxes for each user, they would need to start using and schedulign meetings in the calendar.  If Lync sees a meeting in the Exchange calendar, the presence will change to Busy during this time.