In the recent article ““, I spent some time going through the differences between Conversation History and Archiving in Lync Online. While I’m not a Mac user, a commenter on that article asked about the behavior on a Mac.

Certainly a valid question, after all, anyone that has used the Lync client on the Mac knows that it’s quite a bit different than the Lync 2013 client in Windows. Coincidentally, a few days later, Microsoft released an and in the release notes were specific references to changes in the functionality of Conversation History as well as a mention about Archiving. In the interest of providing a more complete story about Archiving in Lync Online, I added a couple Mac OS X installs to my lab environment. Do the Mac clients honor Lync client policies settings?

Mac users, you now have a Skype for Business client. Chats also serves as Conversation History in the Mac client. You can’t have both Lync for Mac and Skype. If you are running Windows, to save your conversation you have to also be running Microsoft Exchange. It is located under Conversation History. If you are running Mac OS X, they aren't stored on the server. Microsoft Lync (UniCom Basic) Mac User Guide Instant Message Calendar Sort Contacts Group Call Video Email Contacts Search Field. Conversation History. Microsoft Lync 2011’ for more information on these options. With the release of Lync for Mac 14.0.5, many outstanding customer requests are now addressed. Following are some of the fixes and improvements. Added voicemail functionality, which allows users to view and listen to outstanding messages, as shown in Figures 1-3 below. Added recording indicator.

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Would there be a difference in the behavior between the new “Lync for Mac 2011 14.0.10” client and legacy versions? The results of my testing are below I used the following two machines in my testing: OS Mavericks (10.9.5) Yosemite (10.10) Lync 14.0.9 14.0.10 Outlook 14.4.5 15.3 As in my previous article, I tested with both Litigation Hold and In-Place Hold. I also applied the appropriate Lync Online Client Policies such that Conversation History should be blocked. Lync Client Policies I assigned the “ClientPolicyNoSaveIMNoArchiving” Client Policy using the following command: Grant-CsClientPolicy -PolicyName Tag:ClientPolicyNoSaveIMNoArchiving Contradictory to the use of the word “Archiving” in it’s name, this policy has nothing to do with Archiving and is designed to disable the automatic saving of IMs to the “Conversation History” folder (EnableIMAutoArchiving = False) and ability of a user to save IM conversations (DisableSavingIM = False). While the 14.0.9 client does not have the “Conversation History” functionality, the 14.0.10 client added this feature and it does appear to honor these Client Policy settings. Conversation History This is where the Mac client varies from the Windows Lync client.

The Mac client has an option to “Save Conversations Locally” which is separate from the “Conversation History” functionality. This “local store” is located in: /Users/%username%/Documents/Microsoft User Data/Microsoft Lync History/ The 14.0.10 client still has the local save option and unfortunately that setting does not appear to be governed by Lync Online policies for either the 14.0.9 or 14.0.10 clients nor can the setting be controlled locally by the “” function. Aside from the local store, the “Conversation History” functionality is pretty consistent with the Windows client. Archiving No real changes here from the Windows client. Litigation Hold still archives Lync conversations despite the documentation.