Not all contacts showing in lync 2013 client search for most of the users

Dears
i have an issue in searching for contacts in Lync client 2013.
i already set the Global client policy to websearchonly and still not able to see all the contacts.
what should i do else? 
we are using:
- windows 7 ent 64bit
- microsoft office 2010 plus 32bit
- microsoft lync basic 32bit
and on the server side:
- windows server 2012 64bit
- lync server 2013
appreciate your swift response
Moayad Sewar

Ok Moayad, thank you for these info.
It looks ok, I cannot find strange settings.
Did you do this check?
%userprofile%\appdata\Local\Microsoft\Office\15.0\Lync
enter the sip_<usersipuri> folder
you will find two files
GalContacts.db
GalContacts.db.idx
open the GalContacts.db with notepad, you can find every AD Users and Contacts that Lync consider eligible
for the GAL.
Try to find in this file some Contacts that lync users cannot find. If you cannot find here we've to investigate
more deeply into AD Attributes.
Regards
Luca
Luca Vitali | MCITP Lync/Exchange | snom Certified Engineer | Sonus SBC1000 Engineer

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