Lync 2013 Client Update – November 2014

We have a November update to the Lync client. Read all about KB2899507 here.

This update takes the Lync 2013 Client to 15.0.4667.1000/1001.

What’s Fixed?

  • 3010340 Video freezes consistently for two second-intervals when you make a video call in Lync 2013
  • 3009723 Incorrect format of string in a trace statement when application sharing session viewers stop viewing in a conference
  • 3009722 Memory leak occurs when you start a peer-to-peer application sharing session in Lync 2013
  • 3009721 Lync 2013 crashes when you join a meeting that is hosted on Lync Server 2010 as an anonymous user
  • 3009719 Lync 2013 freezes when a toast notification of a call appears

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

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Current Version

Released

Office 2013 MSO (KB2899493) x86
x64
1.0 4 November 2014
MSORES (kb2817624) x86
x64
1.0 6 Sept 2013
IDCRL (kb2820640) x86
x64
1.0 6 May 2014
LyncHelp (kb2881083) x86
x64
1.0 2 August 2014

 

As with the October update, IDCRL is no longer listed as a pre-req. I’ve left it here scratched out just for the time being…

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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 folder (including the old ones I already believe I have installed) and am letting them fight it out:

Client-Nov2014-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 an x86 client on a Windows 7 machine.

Before

After

Lync 15.0.4659.1001 MSO 15.0.4659.1001 Lync 15.0.4667.1000 MSO 15.0.4667.1001
Client-Nov2014-Before3 Client-Nov2014-After

 

– G.

5 Comments

  1. 3009719 Lync 2013 freezes when a toast notification of a call appears

    I started to be happy, as I am struggling such an issue on all of our company-imaged laptops (cannot start or receive any kind of calls, all such attempt immediately freezes the Lync2013 application, it has to be killed from TaskManager). So I visit the KB article to see under what circumstances the issue surfaces. The answer: NADA, thats not my business. Pathetic the quality of B articles and issues descriptions MS is releasing in the last 2-3 years.

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