Setting PIdgin up for Lync2013

I was able to get this working on ubuntu 13.04 (question asked on ubuntu 12.04). Here are a few pointers:

Use the full user agent string as @mason81 pointed out: 

UCCAPI/15.0.4420.1017 OC/15.0.4420.1017 (Microsoft Lync)

I did not need to use a startup script to solve any write errors. e.g.

export NSS_SSL_CBC_RANDOM_IV=0
pidgin -d

That linked repo was pointless on this distro, don't use it. It appears that on Ubuntu 13.04 you will install pidgin-sipe 1.13.3-1 by default which is an even more up-to-date version.

It appears that the pidgin/sipe setup I have installed here has a third authentication type for TLS as seen in this picture which is what I needed. enter image description here

For reference, here are my connection settings that are working: enter image description here enter image description here

The other tabs are the defaults

Update

To get this working in ubuntu 14.04, do exactly the same, but untick the single sign on!


I manged to get this working on Ubuntu 12.04 with the pidgin (2.10.3) and pidgin-sipe (1.11.2-1ubuntu1) installed from the default precise/universe repo. We are using Lync2013 also.

I did use an environment variable to run pidgin. Without this pidgin would fail every time with a 'Read failed'. This was configured in /home/myuser/.profile by appending:

export NSS_SSL_CBC_RANDOM_IV=0

Check here for more information about why this variable is needed for sipe.

The sipe settings were as follows

'Basic' tab:

  • Username: my email as used within the company (e.g [email protected])
  • Login: company logon domain\username (e.g COMPANY\john.smith)

Advanced tab:

  • Connections type: Auto
  • User Agent: UCCAPI/15.0.4420.1017 OC/15.0.4420.1017 (Microsoft Lync)
  • Use Single Sign-on: [ticked]

All other fields in Advanced were blank. I had no proxy configured.


This is what is currently working for me. I have an Office365 account.

BASIC TAB

Username: [email protected]

Login: [email protected]

Password: *****

[CHECK]Remember password

Local alias: My Name

ADVANCED TAB

Server[:Port]: BLANK

Connection type: SSL/TLS

User Agent: UCCAPI/15.0.4481.1000 OC/15.0.4481.1000 (Microsoft Lync)

Authentication scheme: TLS-DSK

[UNCHECK]Use Single Sign-On

The rest is blank

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