In the Keychain Access app on your Mac, choose File Add Keychain. Select the deleted keychain file. You can also open the Keychain file in the Finder or, if you use Time Machine to back up your files, you can restore the file with Time Machine. Keychains are usually located in the Keychains folder in the Library folder in your home folder. MacOS uses keychains to help you keep track of and protect the passwords, account numbers, and other confidential information you use every day on your Mac computers and iOS and iPadOS devices. You can use the Keychain Access app on your Mac to view and manage your keychains.

Mar 06, 2014  If you use more than one Mac, even if it is an office system on a corporate domain, then in the latest versions of OS X, Apple has a new iCloud keychain feature that you can use to not only share. Start Keychain Access by using one of the following methods: Select the  Finder  application, click Utilities on the Go menu, and then double-click  Keychain Access. In Spotlight Search, type Keychain Access, and then double-click  Keychain Access in the search results. In the search field in Keychain Access. Windows 8 has a notion of a keychain called Password Vault. Windows Runtime apps (Modern/Metro) as well as managed desktop apps can make use of it. According to the documentation: Apps and services don't have access to credentials associated with other apps or services. Aug 11, 2016  Microsoft Lync wants to use the OCKeyContaineremailaddress keychain prompt. I keep getting prompted to enter my keychain password 'OCKeyContaineremailaddress' keychain, but this keychain does not exist. (it was removed when Lync 2011 was removed from my Mac earlier) I have tried re-installing Lync but no luck. Jun 28, 2018 As mentioned, Keychain is a native password management utility for machines running Mac OS X or macOS. Keychain is automatically created when you first create your user account, and it keeps updating to add passwords for all keychain-aware applications, websites, and servers that you access over time.

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This article describes how to do a clean uninstallation of Microsoft Lync for Mac 2011.

Procedure

To cleanly uninstall Lync for Mac 2011, follow these steps:

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Aug 26, 2014  For a complete list of the files that this update adds or changes, double-click the update installer, and then click Show Files on the File menu. Notes The Office for Mac 14.4.4 update is also available from Microsoft AutoUpdate. AutoUpdate is a program that automatically keeps Microsoft software up-to-date. Microsoft has released the Microsoft Office for Mac 2011 14.4.6 update. In addition to the application improvements that are mentioned in this article, Office for Mac 2011 is now available as a subscription offering. For more information about subscription, see. Oct 07, 2015  Microsoft has released the Microsoft Office for Mac 2011 14.5.6 update. In addition to the application improvements that are mentioned in this article, Office for Mac 2011 is now available as a subscription offering. For more information about subscriptions, see Frequently Asked Questions. This update has prerequisites. List of all updates for microsoft office 2011 for mac.

You may be able to avoid uninstalling Lync for Mac 2011 if you create a new profile on the Mac. If you contact Microsoft technical support, you may be asked to create the new profile as a troubleshooting step. If the issue is resolved by creating the new profile, it will be determined that the issue was caused by a corrupted profile.

  1. Log on to your computer by using administrative credentials.

  2. Exit Lync if it's running.

  3. Drag the Lync application to the Trash.

  4. To remove your existing Lync preferences, delete the following files:

    • Users/username/Library/Preferences/com.microsoft.Lync.plist

    • Users/username/Library/Preferences/ByHost/MicrosoftLyncRegistrationDB.xxxx.plist

    • Users/username/Library/Logs/Microsoft-Lync-x.log

      Note This file is present only if you turned on Lync Logging.

    • Users/username/Library/Logs/Microsoft-Lync.log

  5. To remove all Lync files from your computer, delete the following folders in the Users/username/Documents/Microsoft User Data folder:

    • Microsoft Lync Data
    • Microsoft Lync History

    Note

    If you delete the Microsoft Lync History folder, you delete all conversations that are saved in the Conversation History.

  6. In the Applications/Utilities folder, open Keychain Access.

    • Delete any keychains on the left that resemble OC__KeyContainer__.

See the following table for more information about the path locations that are used in Lync for Mac 2011.

Folder pathDescription
Users/Home Folder/Documents/Microsoft User Data/Microsoft Lync DataContains information about the users who have logged into Lync for Mac 2011 on this user account.
Users/Home Folder/Documents/Microsoft User Data/Microsoft Lync HistoryContains conversation history for the user currently logged in.
Users/Home Folder/Library/Preferences/com.microsoft.Lync.plistContains application preferences for Lync.
Users/Home Folder/Library/Caches/com.microsoft.LyncContains server names and endpoints from previous connections to Lync servers.

More Information

To view the Lync for Mac 2011 deployment guide, go to the following Microsoft website: Lync for Mac 2011 Deployment Guide.

The third-party products that this article discusses are manufactured by companies that are independent of Microsoft. Microsoft makes no warranty, implied or otherwise, about the performance or reliability of these products.

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