Adding Skype as provider in the Add a Contact Not in My Organization list

In this post we announced the Skype-Lync connectivity. One of the screenshots in the post shows adding the Skype contact in the Lync 2013 client using Add a Contact Not in My Organization .

In the fly-out Skype is listed with the Skype logo. The Lync client get the list via in-band provisioning from the server based on the enabled public providers. To add Skype to the list issue the following commands on the Lync server in Lync Server Management Shell:

• Remove-CsPublicProvider -identity MSN
• New-CsPublicProvider -ProxyFqdn federation.messenger.msn.com -VerificationLevel UseSourceVerification -Enabled $true -Identity Skype -IconUrl https://images.edge.messenger.live.com/Messenger_16x16.png

Wait for CMS replication and sign out and in again in the Lync client. Skype should now be in the list.