Lync 2013 Client Update – March 2015

Here’s an update that seems largely for the benefit of the meeting junkies out there. This update (KB2956174) takes the Lync 2013 Client to 15.0.4701.1000.

I’m also pleased to report that it drops another of the pre-req’s we’ve been used to seeing, now down to 2 – and if you’re running with the February update there’s no change needed there.

What’s Fixed?

KB 3040496 Lync 2013 does not show who changes content in a shared whiteboard in an online meeting
KB 3040495 Cannot scroll down text that is more than two pages in whiteboard in Lync 2013
KB 3040494 “We couldn’t connect to the presentation” error occurs when an anonymous user shares a desktop in a meeting in Lync 2013
KB 3040493 Lync Online users cannot search contacts in Lync 2013 in an environment that has a proxy server deployed
KB 3040491 Meeting does not start if you click a meeting URL in a meeting invitation email message when Lync 2013 is signing in
KB 3040489 Text labels for toll and toll-free numbers disappear in a meeting invitation when you create the meeting in Lync 2013
KB 3040488 Outlook 2010 freezes, and then crashes when it runs together with Lync 2013
KB 3040487 “We found a problem with you Lync Meeting. Please leave Lync client running for 15 mins” error occurs in Lync 2013

What’s New?

Nothing that I can see.

Known Issues

Screen-readers are 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

No new updates needed here, and the previous requirement for MSORES appears to be no longer (hence the strike-through):

Update	Download	Current Version	Released
Office 2013 MSO (KB2920798)	x86 x64	1.0	2 February 2015
LyncHelp (kb2881083)	x86 x64	1.0	2 August 2014
MSORES (kb2817624)	x86 x64	1.0	6 Sept 2013

Download

The Install Process

I’ve converted to using Tom’s great “install-hotfixes” PowerShell module to install my updates these days. It’s kinda redundant with this month’s update as I only have one component to install, but I’ve still stuck with it here just in case you’re upgrading from an earlier patch level and have more bits to load.

Reboot?

Supposedly, yes. The KB says no, the install image (above) says yes, but if you bounce Lync (just Lync – not the PC) after the update it’s already showing the new version number. (And yes, I rebooted anyway and it remained unchanged).