How to disable auto mic-level adjustment by Lync?

This issue has been raised in the past with no solution.

http://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/ocsclients/thread/fe7e4c98-64d2-4180-bd0a-229b13a0b0fc

http://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/pl-PL/ocsclients/thread/a97522ee-bf9c-4c2d-ac3b-4fe722228b61

Is there any plans to add this checkbox to the options in Lync? Or perhaps a reg key to disable the feature?

The issue is that the auto adjust doesn't reset itself after a small loud noise causes it to turn the volume down.

While it would be nice to be able to completely disable it, I would definitely be able to work with the feature if it turned the volume back up after lowering it.

However, as of now, this is delaying our Lync rollout so I'm looking for any suggestions on how to stop Lync from adjusting the mic input level when a loud noise causes it to lower the volume.