I received a comprehensive post from a Patrick. Thank you most helpful but it's bedtime in the UK and I have some basic questions before I proceed.

I am a freelencer and I am on P1. Presumely I can't issue licences to non Office 365 users? But if I move to P2 or P3, can I?

I use several email addresses including a hotmail address. It points at several hundred contacts not all of whom use hotmail. Does this mean that such non hotmail contacts are not using Windows Live?

Stuart, did anyone get back to you on your question below? If not, I'll forward to the 0365 community team. Thanks!

Lync Mobile..What about meetings?  That feature doesn't seem to work. I can use Lync on my Iphone with both federated and non frederated accounts but it won't work with meetings.

@Brian T. Grant -- Hi Brian, you can join meetings by clicking Join in the meeting alert only if the meeting is set up to use dial-in conferencing. For details, see Configure dial-in conferencing, onlinehelp.microsoft.com/.../gg591295.aspx. Does that answer your question?

Regards,

Patrick

Patrick, I installed the Lync for iPAD. We have our own internal Lync 2010 server. So i vpn into the office on my ipad, and i imported the server certificate into my iPAD, but when i try to sign in it keeps saying my version is old, and i need to sign in. in the Lync server, the client version is allowed.

any thoughts?

@Manjo212: Hi Manjo, I hope you've gotten an answer to your question by now; if not, could you start a new thread so the support folks can take a look at it?

Thanks,

Patrick Kelley, Lync Technical Writer