Everytime my Lync is launched I am getting the 'Outlook is not the default email client' message as below. Is there a way to avoid this irritant from popping up everytime.
You use Outlook 2007. There is no x64 version. Thats why I deleted the question.
I've found a possible solution:
Within 2 Minutes after Lync is started, a process UCMapi.exe is started and searches for the default mail client under HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Clients\Mail. The default value contains the e-mail client. UcMapi then searches in the sub-key according to this name for a REG_SZ MSIComponentID with the contents {FF1D0740-D227-11D1-A4B0-006008AF820E} (this is Outlook 2010 in my case). If it doesn't find this, it complains with the message in PreFirstRun.
To trick UcMapi, you could create this value under your default mail client (in this example Hotmail is the default mail client).
[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Clients\Mail\Hotmail]
"MSIComponentID"="{FF1D0740-D227-11D1-A4B0-006008AF820E}"
At least in my test UcMapi was satisfied. I can't tell the implications of this setting. So just run it for some time and watch if something doesn't work as expected.
In the Options menu of Lync you can disable the use of a Personal Information Manager. This seems to work as well.
Should I create this registry value?
[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Clients\Mail\Hotmail]
"MSIComponentID"="{FF1D0740-D227-11D1-A4B0-006008AF820E}"
Currently it contains the following subkeys for me:
- Kontact-e5
- Microsoft Outlook
- Mozilla Thunderbird
- Pegasus Mail
- Windows Live Mail
- Windows Mail
Do you want me to create one for this Hotmail too?
- Edited by Deepak Vasudevan Wednesday, August 03, 2011 4:06 PM list addition
No. Hotmail is only an example. Look at the default value of the key HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Clients\Mail. This is your mail client. Create the value below HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Clients\Mail\Your_Mail_Client.
Before you do this, please make sure that disabling the Personal Information Manager doesn't already solve the issue for you.
- Marked as answer by Max MengMicrosoft contingent staff, Moderator Tuesday, August 09, 2011 1:40 AM