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Understanding Privacy Relationships
What Are Privacy
Relationships?
Lync assigns a Privacy Relationship to every contact. There are five Privacy
Relationships:
By default, new IU contacts are all at the Colleagues-level Privacy Relationship. Contacts
obtained from your Outlook Contact List not associated with IU are assigned to the External
Contacts group. However, you can change the Access Level for each contact. This means you
can control how much of your information people can see, and how they are able to contact you,
depending on your Presence Status.
For example, you can share a mobile phone number with your closest coworkers but
not make the number available to the entire IU UniCom community. You can also
control interruptions. For example, by setting your presence status to Do Not Disturb,
you can block all incoming calls and instant messages, except for those from people that
you have granted the Workgroup or the Friends and Family access levels
.
For more information about Privacy Relationships and their interactions with Presence
States, refer to the Help menu within the Lync Options environment and search using
the term, “Control access to your presence information.”
Setting Privacy
Relationships for
Contacts
You can set a Privacy Relationship for any contact.
To set a Privacy Relationship for an individual contact:
1. Right-click the contact.
2. Choose Change Privacy Relationship.
3. Select one of the five Privacy Relationships.