Microsoft Office Tutorials: Send an email message from lync 2010

Following are basic procedures to send an email message to a contact, and to invite someone to a conversation by using mail.

What do you want to do?

To send an email message to a contact, do the following steps.

Click Start, click All Programs, click Microsoft Lync, and then click Microsoft Lync 2010.
In your Contacts list, point to a contact, or type the contact's name in the search field, and then point to the contact in search results.
When the contact card appears, click the Send an email message to button. You can also click the email address in the expanded contact card. Expand a contact card by clicking the Expand contact card icon (˅)

Microsoft Outlook opens an email message addressed to the contact.

To invite someone to have a conversation by using email, do the following steps.

In a Conversation window, click the People Options button, and then click Invite by Email.
Click the contact you want to invite, and then click OK.

Outlook opens an email message that contains information about joining the conversation or meeting.