Hot on the heels of the oft-confusing March Client update (with its seemingly inconsistent version numbering), here’s a juicy April offering with lots of identified fixes. Conspicuous by its absence is any reverting of the emoticons to the animated, unambiguous & friendly pre-SP1 ones, but let’s not harp on about that.
This update takes us to 15.0.4605.1000.
What’s New / Fixed?
Did I mention the emoticons haven’t been reverted? If you feel strongly about this, pop over to the IdeaScale website and lend your support.
Here’s what made the cut this time ‘round:
- 2941631 Cannot drag a distribution group to change position in your contact list in Lync 2013
- 2941639 Call forwarding to the Response Group fails in Lync 2013
- 2941640 Desktop sharing session stops in Lync 2013 when all screen data is updated
- 2941643 Caller cannot close the window of a transferred call in Lync 2013
- 2941654 Update sorts and searches contacts by Furigana in Lync 2013
- 2941658 CTRL+TAB does not work when you switch between conversation windows in Lync 2013
- 2941682 Instant message appears using incorrect text format when the DisableRTFIM setting is enabled in Lync 2013
- 2941659 Callee’s name and detailed information is missing from the conversation history of a Lync 2013 outgoing call
- 2941636 Search fails in Lync 2013 when non-Latin characters are used in a different case from the AD DS attributes
- 2941635 Can’t sign in to Lync 2013 when Office 365 account UPN differs from domain account UPN
- 2954951 Slow screen update in application sharing or desktop sharing session in Lync 2013
- 2955577 Lync 2013 takes a long time to sign in after reconnect to the network
- 2955579 Lync 2013 displays un-encoded texts in a toast notification or an instant message sent to another messaging client
- 2955580 Update adds a button to show details about limited functionalities when Lync 2013 connects to a backup pool
Pre-Requisites
Just in case you don’t have them already, here are the links to the pre-req’s. If you’re relatively current you’ll already have these as the youngest is already 5 months old…
Update |
Download |
Current Version |
Released |
| MSO (KB 2727096) | x86 x64 |
1.0 | 2 Aug 2013 |
| MSORES (KB 2817624) | x86 x64 |
1.0 | 6 Sept 2013 |
| IDCRL (KB 2817626) | x86 x64 |
1.0 | 5 Sept 2013 |
| Lynchelp (KB 2817678) | x86 x64 |
1.0 | 5 Nov 2013 |
Updated 16th Apr: fixed incorrect IDCRL links
Known Issues
| Updated 14th May: If you install this update, users of Outlook 2007 and and Outlook 2010 will no longer be able to see (or call) the numbers of their Outlook Contacts. Microsoft is aware of this and offers two work-arounds: edit the Contact to remove their e-mail address, or change the user’s CsClientPolicy to set “DisplayPhoto” to “NoPhoto”. Bounce the clients, wait for a contact re-fresh/re-synch and all will be well – just a bit clunky without the photos. This has been fixed in the August 2014 update – at least for Outlook 2010. |
After you install this update, you may experience the issues that are described in the following Microsoft Knowledge Base articles:
- 2898357 Screen readers cannot read aloud keystrokes during a Lync 2013 application or desktop sharing session in Windows
- 2932389 Persistent Chat file transfer fails between an external user and an internal user in Lync 2013
Download
The whole KB is here, or you can jump straight to the downloads:
Before & After
Here’s a before and after comparison of my client on a Windows 8.1 machine.
Before |
After |
| Lync 15.0.4569.1503 MSO 15.0.4569.1506 | Lync 15.0.4605.1000 MSO 15.0.4569.1506 |
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– G.
