Lync 2013 Client Update – December 2014

Hot on the heels of – and fixing a bug introduced *in* – November’s, we now have a December update to the Lync 2013 client. Read all about kb2910927 here.

This update takes the Lync 2013 Client to 15.0.4675.1000/1002.

What’s Fixed?

  • kb3017596 Sharing session stops in Lync 2013 when the display resolution of a shared monitor is changed
  • kb3004595 E.164 normalized telephone numbers are not displayed in Lync 2013 contact cards or the “Call” menu

What’s New?

Nothing that I can see.

Known Issues

Screen-readers appear to be an ongoing problem – unchanged from the known issues list of previous updates:

  • 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

Pre-Requisites

One of these has also been updated since the last update:

Update

Download

Current Version

Released

Office 2013 MSO (KB2920734) x86
x64
1.0 1 December 2014
MSORES (kb2817624) x86
x64
1.0 6 Sept 2013
LyncHelp (kb2881083) x86
x64
1.0 2 August 2014

 

Download

The Install Process

I’ve converted to using Tom’s great “install-hotfixes” PowerShell module to install my updates these days. Here’s the output. Note that I’ve dropped ALL of the pre-req’s in the one temporary folder on my desktop (including the old ones I already believe I have installed) and am letting them fight it out:

Lync2013Client-Dec2014CU-InstallProcess

Reboot?

Alas, yes – although the KB says no. The MSO update set the reboot flag apparently. (Click the image for a more legible view).

Before & After

Here’s a before and after comparison of the x64 client on my Windows 8.1 machine.

Before

After

Lync 15.0.4667.1000 MSO 15.0.4667.1001 Lync 15.0.4675.1000 MSO 15.0.4675.1002
Lync2013Client-BeforeDec134Update2910927 Lync2013Client-AfterDec134Update2910927

 

– G.

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