Lync: Appear Offline Status

Back in the LCS and OCS days, you could have a status called "Appear Offline" which allowed you to function if you were online, but people wouldn't know it.  Now this option is hidden, but you can re-enable it manually if you edit the registry.

Manually Create

• Run regedit
• Go to "HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Policies\Microsoft"
• Create a new key "Communicator"
• Create a dword "EnableAppearOffline"
• Set the vecimal value of "EnableAppearOffline" to 1

Create via .reg file

• Open Notepad
• Copy and paste the text below into notepad
• Save as a .reg
• Open the .reg file and import

Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Policies\Microsoft\Communicator]
"EnableAppearOffline"=dword:00000001



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