My office uses Lync under Windows 7, and it’s super annoying.
It automatically boots up when the computer starts, but then requires me to enter my password. It then gives me the “Do you want Lync to remember your settings” window, and for some reason No is always highlighted. I’ll click Yes, which does no good whatsoever. It still asks me for password on next startup. Sometimes I forget to do it, because my login settings automatically load for everything else I use, and I get emails from people saying “I couldn’t reach you through Lync.” POOP!
Supposedly, our IT department is looking into this, but they’ve been doing so for the past couple of years. The only workaround I found was to keep IE 9 open (yes, we’re getting the new version soon) which for some reason retains login information for Lync. Maybe this will go away when we get out system upgrade, but I’m still wondering if there’s some cut & dried method of configuring whatever it is I need to configure so I don’t have to feed Lync login info all the time.