Perhaps getting up to speed on Lync administration basics might be a good idea if you are going to be poking around on the server?
-sc -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Daniel Chenault Sent: Monday, October 13, 2014 12:43 PM To: [email protected] Subject: RE: [NTSysADM] Lync Group Chat Downloaded and installed on my machine. Logged-in and connected successfully. Try to create a chat room and get "Your connection to the chat room server was lost." Googling THAT gets me more webpages with instructions that aren't making sense because I have not one clue about Lync; they may as well be in Greek. ________________________________ > Date: Mon, 13 Oct 2014 11:30:45 -0500 > Subject: Re: [NTSysADM] Lync Group Chat > From: [email protected] > To: [email protected] > > Group chat in Lync 2010 is a separate DL, and requires a separate client. > > http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=2651 > http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=12480 > > > - WJR > 🙈🙉🙊 > > > > On Mon, Oct 13, 2014 at 11:19 AM, Daniel Chenault > <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: > Apologies for off-topic but I'm guessing there may be one or two Lync > folks here. We're on Lync 2010. I've never touched Lync before and the > person who set this up is long gone. As the Exchange guy it falls in > my backyard. > > I've been looking for how to enable/setup persistent chat rooms in > Lync. So far every webpage I hit is either "ZOMG it's great! It's > wonderful! It does this... <blah blah" which helps not one bit or "in > the client click Group Chat..." (there is no button in my Lync button > for such) or "here's a screen shot. Do blah blah..." and the shot > looks nothing like what I'm seeing. When I log on one of our Lync > servers I don't see any UI; there's Deployment, Logging and the PS > shell and that's it. The best info I've been able to find is that > users have to be given the right to create such a room. > > *sigh* > > >

