By default in Skype for Business, any two users (internal or external) who can communicate with each other can also see each other’s presence information. Some organizations may want to give their end users control on who they want to see their presence information. This can be configured through a feature called Privacy Mode, and this blog article will cover how to configure it and what it means from an end user’s perspective.

Read my full article over at the Perficient Microsoft Blog:

https://blogs.perficient.com/microsoft/2018/01/skype-for-business-controlling-contact-privacy-options/