What you can do with enhanced presence

Learn how to use the Microsoft Lync 2013 API to programmatically implement enhanced presence features, including getting contact enhanced presence, displaying presence in a ContactCard, getting available communication modes from a contact, publishing enhanced presence, and subscribing to enhanced presence.

Applies to: Lync 2013 | Lync Server 2013

Core enhanced presence tasks

The topics in this section show how to programmatically gett contact enhanced presence, display presence in a ContactCard, get available communication modes from a contact, publish enhanced presence, and subscribe to enhanced presence.

In this section

• How to: Get the enhanced presence of a Lync user

• How to: Display contact information by using a ContactCard control

• How to: Get the communication modes of a Lync user

• How to: Publish enhanced presence information

• How to: Subscribe to enhanced presence content

• How to: Use presence information in an application

• How to: Display and publish custom availability in Lync SDK

• How to: Change the privacy relationship between Lync users

See also

• How do I in Lync 2013 SDK