Privacy Settings

Privacy Relationships

Understand Presence & Privacy Relationships:

Your presence information includes your availability status (such as available or away), presence indicator (such as green, yellow, or red), schedule, location, and personal and out-of-office notes. The following table shows which presence information attributes are available for a given privacy relationship. Contacts with whom you have a Workgroup relationship are likely to be important. Only these contacts can interrupt you when you have set your status to Do Not Disturb.

 Note:  Non-buddies when in Enhanced Privacy Mode, and blocked contacts will see only your display name and email address

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• Presence information items with an asterisk (*) beside them indicates that if these attributes are defined in the company’s directory service, they are visible to all contacts in your organization, regardless of privacy relationship. They are also visible to external contacts outside your organization (if configured and recognized by your organization’s network).

•  Presence information items with a pound sign (#) beside them are enabled by default.

Change The Privacy Relationship

To view your contacts according to their privacy relationships, do the following:

• Click the Relationships button in the area just above your contacts (other options are Groups and Status).

To change the privacy relationship you have with a contact, do the following:

• Open Lync 2010, and, in your Contacts list, right-click a contact, point to Change Privacy Relationship and then click a new privacy relationship for the contact.

 

By default, contacts are assigned the Colleagues privacy relationship when you add them to your Contacts list. If you have any contacts that you’ve subsequently assigned to another relationship, you can change the privacy relationship back to Colleagues by clicking either Colleagues, or Auto-assign Relationship.

Enable Privacy Mode

By default, everyone except Blocked Contacts can see your presence status. For additional privacy, you can do the following:

1. In the Lync main window, click the Options button.
2. In the Lync - Options dialog box, click Status, and then do one of the following:

• Click I want everyone to be able to see my presence regardless of system settings (override default settings)
• Click I want the system administrator to decide - currently everyone can see my presence but this could change in the future

             

Block A Contact

 To block a contact from reaching you in Lync:

1. In your Contacts list, right-click the contact you want to block.
2. Click Change Privacy Relationship, and then click Blocked Contacts.

Note: Your name and email address are still be displayed.

Hide Your Activity Feed

By default, for everyone except Blocked Contacts and External Contacts, updates to your personal note will appear in their Activity Feed list. Do the following to change this:

1. In the Lync main window, click the Options button.
2. In the Lync - Options dialog box, click Personal.
3. Near the bottom of the right pane, under Activity Feed, clear the Show all my updates in Activity Feed check box. Changes to your status will appear only with your presence status, for example in others’ Contacts list.

       

Hide Your Location

By default, Lync updates your location when you log on from different places. You can hide this information from others by doing the following:

1. In the Lync main window, click the location menu below your name.
2. Clear the Show Others My Location check box.