How to install Microsoft Lync 2013 on Windows 2012 R2 - Part4

We now need to configure the Control Panel. There is another app that is now available. It’s called Lync Server Control Panel

Login with your Administrator Credentials, User must have RTCUniversalServerAdmins group privileges as we have mentioned earlier.

This is the Lync Control Panel

Assuming that you already have created Domain Users in your Active Directory, in my case I have already created “lyncuser”

Click on Users –> Enable users –>Add

Click “Enable” at the top after adding the user.

We have enabled “lyncuser” as you see in image below.

Open your Lync 2013 Client (if you have Office 2013, you already have the Lync Client.  If you have a previous version of Office, you can download the client via the links below.

• 32-bit
• 64-bit

I have already installed Lync Client 2010. If you want to login with Lync 2010, you may need to change client version policy from Lync Control Panel.

Signing in

Logged in