Now in Lync Server client policy settings can be used to modify that behavior of the standard Lync 2010 client software. Yet the standard Communicator client could only leverage the ABS download method and would not use the web query method for basic searching. In previous versions of Communications Server those databases existed only to service queries from clients which were incapable of downloading and storing local contact cache files. One of the new features in Lync Server is the ability to use the Address Book Web Query (ABWQ) component in place of the default Address Book Service (ABS) for the standard Lync client.īy default only the Lync Phone Edition, Web App, and Mobile clients will leverage real-time web-query based searches against the Lync Server’s rtcab (or rtcab1) database which stores the same address book information that the ABS server files do.
