1. How to Federate with Lync Online

2. Step # 1 – Ensure that you have enabled your Partner Benefit
Please make sure you have followed the guide listed on our SharePoint Site : Office 365 Advisor Partner Experience
After you have configured your staff some Lync Accounts, lets connect them with Tech Data by enabling Federation!
-From here you can get Office 365, CRM, Intune and Azure benefits. Each come as a 1 year trial

3. Step #2 – Log in as your Admin to Office 365
Select the manage link
directly under “Lync Online”

4. Step #3 – View Lync Online Settings
If you see that Domain
Federation Is Enabled,
then you are done. If not, then click the
Domain federation
Link

5. Step #4 – Enable Federation
Click “edit” beside the
Domain Federation
Status, then select
Allow Federation with
All Domains Except those
I block, and hit OK

6. You have the ability to control this on a per user basis, to do that you need to click each user independently from the Office 365 Admin Portal
You also have the ability to block specific domains, as when you enable this setting you are able to connect with ALL Office 365 users.
You can also select to allow federation with Only the domains you specify, this is easier then creating a very large blacklist
-From here you can get Office 365, CRM, Intune and Azure benefits. Each come as a 1 year trial

7. Step #5 – Enable Federation With Public IM
To do this, you would
Click enable.
This can also be done on
A per user basis.
When enabled, you can
Add Hotmail, Live and
Other MSN contacts
To Lync.

8. This process may take up to 24 hours to complete.
When it is done, please add myself so that you can reach me for any Synchronous communications!
-From here you can get Office 365, CRM, Intune and Azure benefits. Each come as a 1 year trial