title: Lync messaging on Linux link: https://onemoretech.wordpress.com/2014/11/21/lync-messaging-on-linux/ author: phil2nc description: post_id: 8880 created: 2014/11/21 12:22:58 created_gmt: 2014/11/21 17:22:58 comment_status: closed post_name: lync-messaging-on-linux status: publish post_type: post

Lync messaging on Linux

Needed to have a Lync client running on another machine for testing. All I had available was my Linux workstation. Yes, it works. Followed this recent blog post to set my Pidgin client up for Lync on the cloud (via my corporate Office 365 account). Basically you need to first install the pidgin-sipe and purple-sipe packages to add the Office Communicator protocol. These were readily available for Fedora 20 with yum. Once the packages are installed you can go into the Manage Accounts dialog and add an Office Communicator account. The fields to fill out in the account dialog are as follows: Basic tab Username: [email protected] Password: ****** The username is your Office 365 login. Many companies use the user's e-mail address (in federated environments this will be set as the userPrincipalName in your on-premises Active Directory). Password is your Office 365 password (again, in a federated environment this will be identical to your on-premises Active Directory password). Advanced tab Server [Port]: sipdir.online.lync.com:443 Connection Type: Auto User Agent: UCCAPI/15.0.4420.1017 OC/15.0.4420.1017 Authentication Scheme: TLS-DSK There are limitations to this. Basic messaging and presence work fine, as will text conferences. Anything involving the exchange of media, in particular screen sharing, audio and video, will fail. Pidgin simply doesn't support the infrastructure required for that yet.

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