Lync For Mac Disable Active Speaker Video Settings

Within Lync you can use in-band provisioning to perform most of the Clientside settings. An overview of these settings can be found here: or for a more friendly blog: However, there are some settings that aren’t available (yet?), therefore I’ve downloaded the default template and documentation from this location: After reading the documentation, I’ve got multiple requests of customers that they would like to have some additional settings in there I’ll explain the settings and afterwards provide you a link to where you can download the custom Lync Administrative Template.

Google chrome mac os 10.5.8. If connectivity between Lync Server and Exchange Server is lost, the user’s low resolution thumbnailPhoto from AD DS will be displayed, and to internal users only. High-resolution user photos are displayed in Lync 2013 meetings when an active speaker does not have video enabled.

• Modify the time before the client downloads the (delta or full) addressbook. This is not recommended in a production or large scale deployment as clients are instantly downloading the Addressbook instead of the default waiting time (between 0 and 60 minutes). This sets the registry GalDownloadInitialDelay as documented here: • Allow or disallow the autostarting of the Microsft Lync client. This sets the AutoRunWhenLogonToWindows as documented here: • Modify the Idle and Away threshold. These are set to 5 minutes by default. The screenshot below shows the settings screen when you open Settings – Tools – Options – Status • Updated: I’ve added the functionality to Disable PC 2 PC Video. There are excellent blogs on how to add the administrative template to a Group Policy, examples are: or So for short, here is the file: Have fun and if you have any more requests, feel free to contact me!!

Update 26-4: I’ve updated into version 1.1 to disable PC 2 PC Video. This could be handy in a scenario where you have Citrix and don’t want to allow Video calls on that specific server. Hi, I wish to remove the video icons from lync conversations started from a Citrix environment. As advised in the blog, i downloaded the modified admin template to set telephonymode to 5. However, the users conferencin policies setting appears to be in conflict.

For a user with “audio video disabled”, the video icon is not presented, users with “PC to PC” do have the video icon displayed, but this does not function; resulting in users logging service calls. Any thoughts on how to completely remove the video icons from a Citrix environment?

I am also experiencing the same issue as Geoff Lawrence. I am attempting to remove the Audio and Video feaures for PC to PC users by modifying the registry on Server 2008 R2 Citrix Terminal Servers. Disable Audio HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE SOFTWARE Policies Microsoft Communicator TelephonyMode=5 Disable Video HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE SOFTWARE Policies Microsoft Communicator DisablePC2PCVideo=1 These keys when use individualy work perfectly but combined seem to create a bug in which the video button is still visable. If the user clicks the video button, the button will disappear. Not sure why this is occuring? Downloaded this and gave it a try to prevent the auto starting of Lync, but it doesn’t work, from what I can tell this adm uses SOFTWARE Policies Microsoft Communicator but from what I can tell this won’t work and only HKCurrentUser SOFTWARE Microsoft Communicator AutoRunWhenLogonToWindows will actually be used by Lync.