Pidgin to Lync integration: solved
I had been trying to get the open source instant messenger client Pidgin to connect to Lync using SIPE. However, they wouldn’t play nice. The Pidgin GUI kept saying “Web ticket request to https:// webdir0e- ext.online.lync.com:443/ CertProv/ CertProvisioningService.svc failed” while the debug log from running pidgin –debug ended with an XML containing “Web ticket request error - SIP URI mismatch” - after confirming username and password to be ok. My environment was Pidgin 2.10.7 and SIPE 1.15.0 on Win8 connecting to Office 365 (no local AD). ...