Pidgin and MS Lync 365

[frytek]

Hi,

I am placing it here because it took me some time to make it work.

Here's how to make Pidgin talk to Lync 365 users:

1. Install pidgin-sipe

sudo apt-get install pidgin-sipe

2. In Pidgin:
Accounts / Manage / Add / Protocol: Office communicator

3. Settings:

Basic tab:
Username: username you use to log in to Office 365 services, e.g.: my_email@company.com
Login: same as username

Password: your password used to log in to the Office 365 services.

Save password: ticked

Local alias: anything.

Advanced tab:
Server / port: empty
Connection type: Automatic
User Agent: UCCAPI/4.0.7577.314 OC/4.0.7577.314
Auth: TLS-DSK
Single login: not ticked.

That's all. All others fields empty.


Edit:
I fount much newer user agent:
UCCAPI/15.0.4420.1017 OC/15.0.4420.1017 (Microsoft Lync)
This one works with login empty (just with username and pass).

Works for me on Mint 17, based on Trusty.