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The first thing maybe we want to do is to uncheck those two items that are in the “General” tab. I’ll dive down under “User Configuration,” “PolicyPak/Applications/New/Application.” There it is, “PolicyPak for Microsoft Lync” along with our other applications like “Word” and “Media Player,” “Firefox” and some other things. We’ll go ahead and right click over our “East Sales Users” here, “Create a GPO” and we’re going to “Lock Down Lync client.” So this GPO is now associated with the “East Sales Users.” I’ll right click over. You’re ready to start using the LyncPolicyPak. What we’re going to do is we’re going to take the “pp-Lync-Client.dll” and “Copy here” where the other extensions live. The one we’re after right here is the “Lync” client. We’ve got a lot of preconfigured applications, more coming all the time.

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This is something you would download from us here at PolicyPak. We’re going to find our “PreConfigured PolicyPaks” folder. Here on my Management Station, as we have done in lots of other demonstrations, we’re going to just go to “C:Program FilesPolicyPakExtensions” here. I’ll go ahead and switch over to my other computer here. Let’s go over and see how we would do that using PolicyPak.

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I’ll show you how to do that.If we take a look down over at “Status” here, maybe you want to set a custom timer for when users are inactive or when they’re away.Maybe you don’t want them to mess up these “Alerts” here. We can also prevent users from using an alternate “Sign-in address” if that’s interesting as well. Let’s start off here with “General.” Maybe you don’t want to “Show emoticons in instant messages” or “Show an alternating background color for messages in the conversation” or something like that. That’s why you, the administrator, need to swoop in and help them out. As you can see, I’m logged on as a guy called “eastsalesuser4.” If I were to go to the “Tools/Options” page here, like lots of other applications that PolicyPak can control, there are just too many things for a user to mess up on their own. I’ve already got my Microsoft Lync client here, and I’m just a regular user here. In this video, we’re going to learn how to use PolicyPak to manage Microsoft Lync client. Hi, this is Jeremy Moskowitz, former Group Policy MVP and Founder of PolicyPak Software. Manage Microsoft Lync client with Group Policy video transcript

When you’re ready to get serious about managing the Lync client, PolicyPak is ready for you.

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PolicyPak was designed by former Group Policy MVP Jeremy Moskowitz – who “wrote the book” on Group Policy, runs, and lives and breathes Group Policy and enterprise software deployments and desktop lockdown.

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It’s all included when you’re a PolicyPak Professional customer. With PolicyPak, you can deliver lots of Lync Client settings and ensure that you’re in charge and users’ settings are unchangeable.īesides, once you’re using PolicyPak to manage the Lync Client, you’ll also get to manage all your other enterprise desktop applications the same way:Flash, WinZip, Firefox, and any custom applications you have. And when it is deployed, make sure your users are using it the way you intended, instead of working around your settings. Or ensure your users don’t mess with settings which are dictated from the Lync server by completely disabling a whole tab, like what is seen here. You can dictate the Inactive and Away times for the Lync Client, like what is seen here. You can deliver key settings and lock users out of scary Lync Client settings, as seen here. PolicyPak is a true management system, which can lock down the Lync client and ensure users cannot work around your set policies. There’s simply no way to manage the Lync client using Group Policy any other way. Note: This video shows Lync 2010, but we also have a pre-configured Paks for Lync 2013 and Skype for Business 2015/2016. So if you want to ensure that users can’t “mess up their Skype Client settings” then check out this video.

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With this pak, you’ll be able to deliver lots of Skype client settings PLUS lock down areas of the Skype client that users can access.

Your Active Directory admins already know how to use Group Policy, but too bad they can’t configure the Skype client.Įxcept now you can, with the pre-configured PolicyPak for Business Pak. Well, then, you already know there’s no “In the box” way to manage the Skype client using Group Policy – which is a real bummer. And, let me guess, you’re using it (or are about to be) using it too.Įxcellent. Skype for Business is awesome! And lots of organizations are using it. 06: PolicyPak for Microsoft Skype for Business (formerly Lync)