+35Anyone able to manage Lync 2011's setting via JAMF MCX?
Or via /Library/Preferences/MicrosoftLyncRegistrationDB.plist?
Or /User/currentuser/Library/Preferences/ByHost/MicrosoftLyncRegistrationDB.<GUID>.plist?
The below link give the managed prefs, & me a headache!
http://mac2.microsoft.com/help/office/14/en-us/lyncdeploy/item/81755f45-3c1b-4d09-bef1-2cf48b9fc29a
Best answer by Matt11
Hey everyone I worked extensively with Microsoft on the Lync machine level Plist issues and we were able to resolve them.
Here is the basics.
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<!DOCTYPE plist PUBLIC "-//Apple//DTD PLIST 1.0//EN" "http://www.apple.com/DTDs/PropertyList-1.0.dtd">
<plist version="1.0">
<dict>
<key>Backward_Compatible_Version</key>
<integer>1</integer>
<key>Current_Version</key>
<integer>1</integer>
<key>hkey_local_machine</key>
<string><<MacRegNoValue>></string>
<key>hkey_local_machinesoftware</key>
<string><<MacRegNoValue>></string>
<key>hkey_local_machinesoftwarepolicies</key>
<string><<MacRegNoValue>></string>
<key>hkey_local_machinesoftwarepoliciesmicrosoft</key>
<string><<MacRegNoValue>></string>
<key>hkey_local_machinesoftwarepoliciesmicrosoftcommunicator</key>
<string><<MacRegNoValue>></string>
<key>hkey_local_machinesoftwarepoliciesmicrosoftcommunicatorconfigurationmode</key>
<integer>1</integer>
<key>hkey_local_machinesoftwarepoliciesmicrosoftcommunicatorserveraddressinternal</key>
<string>domain.com</string>
<key>hkey_local_machinesoftwarepoliciesmicrosoftcommunicatorserveraddressexternal</key>
<string>domain.com</string>
</dict>
</plist>
+36AppleScript should be just fine. The primary difference between it and shell scripting is that AppleScript is geared toward running while a user is logged in. Since it's getting called from a LaunchAgent, which means someone is logged in, then it's just as applicable.
And, @donmontalvo...
<shakes head />
+4I've been trying to use Managed Preferences for Lync, I've downloaded the manifest from jamfnation and created a policy but it does nothing. The MicrosoftLyncRegistrationDB.plist file ends up in Library/Managed Preferences but this has no impact. If I move that file just to Preferences it works -what gives?
+35+7Our well meaning but probably daft corporate people want us to manage all the preferences under "History" to be unticked. That is: "save conversations locally" "save instant message conv… history folder" and "Save call logs… history folder" all off.
Anyone else been asked to do this? A long shot - just if you had… how did you do it? It's not covered by those ^^ manifests. (Or is it??)
(Digging into the plists unearths a load of crazy - some of which is shown in those manifests - thanks to whoever compiled those)
+18I don't have a direct answer, but perhaps compare the plist file before and after ticking the preference and see what changes. If you are using Mavericks or Yosemite you may have to wait a bit for cprefsd to copy the setting down so perhaps testing may be easier in Mountain Lion or even Lion (both of which should support Lync).
+35@alan.trewartha, I've posted the current version of the AppleScript Launcher app I use: https://github.com/macmule/Lync-Launcher/blob/master/LyncLauncher.scpt
There is a key there to save the conversation history.
+7Cheers both. I did indeed do a plist comparison and found the "SaveConversation -bool" (the one in your script Ben). That appears to fix one of the three history options - but I couldn't find any sign of where the other 2 option states are recorded at all - weird.
What they want are all 3 options fixed off with no manual override possible. I'll give it another fiddle soon. (There's some chance they will give up caring. Frankly I find it a bit creepy they even want this - as a user/employee, not as an IT person)
+23can any of this be done with config profiles now?
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