Lync 2013 conversation history

Hi All,
I had installed and configured (Lync 2013) DC, Lync 2013 and Edge server. My Lync user's are able to chat with internal and external user's without any issue. I don't have exchange or third party mailing server. Is there any way to save the lync chat conversation
history?
Thanks in Advance.
Irfan

By Design Lync obtains conversation history from Microsoft Exchange Server and displays it in the Conversations list so that users can view and continue their past conversations.
Hence and Exchange server or Exchange mailbox is must
However using the SDK you can have the history logged perhaps to database here is an Idea
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/14300803/how-to-save-lync-conversation-history-when-corp-has-blocked-this-feature
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I thoght about that. And i figured it out.
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Morning all,
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1) That sounds like a strange translation. But basically, it wants to connect to Exchange and it's complaining.
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http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/gg398300.aspx with the following options:
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DisableEmailComparisonCheck $True
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3) No conferencing plugin for meeting invites, no automatic presence management based upon your calendar, no searching your Outlook contacts for new contacts, no voicemail, no conversation history,no unified contact store, and more:
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/jj688098.aspx
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pasting into lync.
I noticed that if someone sends me content pasted from a web browser that I may see an empty box on my end rather than the content though in the history when viewing the conversation in outlook I see the actual text there.
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---------------- html page markup -------------------------------------
<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3c.org/TR/1999/REC-html401-19991224/loose.dtd">
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                            <tr>
                                <td>
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                                        <div >
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<div>
<div>
<div>
<table>
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<div>
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</td>
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</td>
</tr>
</tbody>
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</div>
</div>
</div>
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Open the attached html file in Firefox
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"Text to copy" should be pasted into the message window.
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Alan

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