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Supported Lync environments

Enterprise Vault.cloud Lync Connector Administration Guide

Lync Connector supports archiving from Microsoft Lync Server 2010 and 2013, and Skype for Business Server 2015. For the latest information on the versions that Lync Connector works with, see the Enterprise Vault.cloud Compatibility List.

A known issue exists with Lync Connector in an environment that uses Lync 2013 clients with a Lync 2010 server.

See Use of Lync 2013 clients with a Lync 2010 server

For the correct functioning of Lync Connector it is essential that the latest Lync Server cumulative update is installed, and that the associated back-end database updates are applied:

Lync Connector's additional requirements for the Microsoft Lync environment are as follows:

  • The Lync server must be fully configured to archive to a SQL Server Lync archiving database. Archiving to the database must be enabled in Lync for all of the users whose Lync content you want to archive to Enterprise Vault.cloud.

  • Most or all of the content in the Lync archiving database should be associated with users who have Enterprise Vault.cloud archive accounts.

    Lync Connector is not optimized for environments where only a small subset of the transcripts in the Lync archiving database relates to users with Enterprise Vault.cloud archive accounts. Subject only to a historical date limit, Lync Connector retrieves and processes all of the content from the Lync archiving database.

  • Lync Connector ignores any transcripts in the database that are marked as purgeable. When Lync Connector extracts a transcript from the Lync archiving database it marks the transcript as purgeable to indicate that the transcript has been obtained. You must ensure that no other applications such as a backup process mark any transcripts in the database as purgeable before Lync Connector has extracted them.

    This restriction is essential for the successful operation of Lync Connector.

  • You can delete from the Lync archiving database the content that Lync Connector has exported, if you want. The benefit of deleting this content is that the database is maintained at a manageable size, and the Lync Connector takes less time to process it.

    If in the Lync Server's archiving settings you enable the purging of archiving data, consider the option to purge exported archiving data only. Otherwise you may risk the deletion of content from the database before Lync Connector has exported it.