Microsoft Lync 2013 Plain & Simple

Chapter 4. Managing contacts

In this section:

• Searching contacts

• Creating a new contact group

• Adding contacts to a group

• Adding external contacts to a group

• Removing a contact from a group

• Monitoring a contact’s availability

Let’s face it, your contacts are important to you, so the ability to search, add, and categorize them is a fundamental requirement of any communication platform.

Searching for contacts in Microsoft Lync 2013 is straightforward, and the information returned on each contact can be extremely comprehensive. Gone are the days when you need to reference a book or intranet page to find a colleague’s telephone number. And similarly, gone are the days when you need to type a contact’s telephone number to call her; just type her name in the ...