Lync discards hyperlinks?

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I don't know if it is my Lync configuration or corporate enforced policy but Lync seems to discard hyperlinks. For example if I copy the "formatting help" link on the sidebar here and paste it in a Lync conversation it appears as follows:

formatting help » (http://superuser.com/editing-help)

The text in parenthesis is not clickable for me nor for the person who receives the message.

I don't care much about copy paste, I would be happy to just be able to send clickable links in message. Is there a way to do this?

Miserable Variable

Posted 2013-05-31T21:19:24.370

Reputation: 759

Answers

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This seems to be a Lync server configuration, as described in this blog:

Option #2 - Allow instant messages that contain hyperlinks, but convert the links to plain text. Enter the notice that you want to insert at the beginning of each message containing hyperlinks.

Miserable Variable

Posted 2013-05-31T21:19:24.370

Reputation: 759

this is a security feature. By making users cut & paste into a browser. Hopefully, this will give the user enough time to think whether or not it is a good idea. I havent seen it recently, but there were viruses that spread through IM clients by infecting a machine and sending out an IM to everyone in the address book with a link to the virus. – Keltari – 2013-05-31T21:40:52.437

3Yes I have seen those too, which I think exploit browser vulnerabilities but in this day and age where everything is clickable it is strange that I can receive links in e-mails, Office documents and PDFs; during work-related chat I have to copy paste to see a JIRA issue. Oh well. – Miserable Variable – 2013-06-01T01:02:20.420

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