add all users to lync clients

Hello everybody

I have a network with 800 users.

i installed skype for business 2015, now i want add all skype for business users to lync clients.

August 10th, 2015 6:15am

Hi

Do you mean as contacts? Or you want to enable all users for Skype for Business? Please explain your question in more detail.

If contacts, then the address book is downloaded within 60 minutes of first sign in. This can be changed using Group Policy with the Office 2013 ADMX.

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August 10th, 2015 7:40am

I'm going to jump the gun and assume you're talking about adding all 800 users as contacts in the Lync clients. Typically it's not an administrators prerogative to dictate which contacts users should and shouldn't have in their 'personal' contacts list (that's for the users themselves to decided IMHO) - as such there is no native out the box functionality to achieve this.

You can however pre-stage a clients contacts using 3rd party tools and scripts. One of the more popular iterations being here on the TechNet Gallery.

Please also note the default amount of maximum contacts a user can have is 250 - you would need to change this if you were to add 800 contacts to each client - I don't think this is at all practical.

If you simply want to search for them than adhere to the advice Mark has already provided.

Kind regards

August 10th, 2015 1:54pm

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