In our corporate environment we need to have the Privacy Mode in Lync 2010 enabled for a specific user group. Unforutnately it's only possible to enable this mode for the whole environment and not for specific users.
The idea is to enable the privacy mode via Lync policy for the whole environment and control the setting on the Clients with our software deployment system. It's possible to choose "I want everyone to be able to see my presence..." and "I want the system administrator to decide". What I'd need is a little client tool preferably written in C# which is able to change that Status option in the Lync 2010 client.
Unfortunately it seems like this is not simply a registry key being set. I found that there is a "PolicyPak" which is able to control this setting through Group Policies. Most likely they're using the LyncSDK to control this setting.
My questions is: Does someone know how to change this setting through the LyncSDK? I've already downloaded it but didn't really know where to start. Maybe someone can point me in the right direction.
By using the UCMA it is possible to change the PrivacyMode for a user with the BeginUpdatePrivacyPreference method