Sunday 15 April 2018

office365 - What are the settings for Instantbird's Office Communicator and Lync?

We have Office365 Business and I am trying to hook up Instantbird (beta: 1.6a1pre, which has the new protocol) to use for chat (rather than Skype for Business, a.k.a., Lync).


(Incidentally, here are the settings for IMAP,SMTP, and Calendars and LDAP to work with Thunderbird)


The problem is that I can't get the settings correct for it to connect.


Basically, so far I am working off the settings for Pidgin's SIPE plugin.


Here are the settings I have at the moment, (the rest are all either blank or default; and I've re-entered the password several times, correctly):



  • username: my.address@my.domain.com

  • connection type: Auto

  • server[port]: outlook.office365.com:5061

  • user agent: UCCAPI/15.0.4745.1000 OC/15.0.4745.1000 and UCCAPI/4.0.7577.314 OC/4.0.7577.314

  • authentication scheme: TLS-DSK


What happens is that Instantbird says "Connecting: Connecting" and the little spinner spins. The error console says:


Error connecting to outlook.office365.com:5061 (Connection timed out).

I've also tried without the :5061.

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