After now several false starts, we have a re-re-release of the September Lync 2013 Client update.

This is the update that introduced speck-checking to Lync IMs, reinstated the old “chasing its tail” circular OCS presence icon in the tray, and – my favourite – “paste special”.

In its current incarnation it’s designated 15.0.4535.1510 with a release date of October 8th – although the two download links used for this post only resulted in “.1507” as at this writing (10th Oct).

Known Issues

2883716 Presence status isn’t updated based on Exchange calendar in Lync 2013

Assume that you install the September 2013 update package for Microsoft Lync 2013 that is mentioned in update 2825630. In this situation, your calendar information and OOF information aren’t synchronized between Microsoft Exchange and Lync 2013. For example, when a meeting is scheduled in your Outlook calendar, the following issues may occur:

• If the meeting cannot be joined by using Lync 2010 or Lync 2013, your presence status isn’t updated in Lync 2013 when the meeting starts.
• If the meeting is a Lync 2010 or Lync 2013 meeting, your presence status isn’t updated in Lync 2013 until you join the meeting manually.

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This post has been superceded by take 3.

After a false start, the September client update has been re-released. It offers some FANTASTIC improvements, although for some users it remains not without its bugs.

This update for the Lync 2013 client (kb2825630) reintroduces the familiar OCS-style tray icon (taken in the July hotfix), and adds optional spell-checking to your IMs:

I also LOVE that it’s added “Paste Special”, although it’s (probably more correctly) referred to here as “Paste Unformatted” in the right-click context menu in an IM. Thankfully it also abides by the standard Windows shortcut of Control-Alt-V. (Thanks for pointing this out Tom). This for me is even more useful than spell-checking!
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Here’s an interesting KB a colleague stumbled across this week:

kb2868300 You are unexpectedly transferred to a second PSTN call in Lync 2013

Consider the following scenario:

• You have an Aries or Tanjay telephone that is running Lync Phone Edition.
• You receive and answer a Public Switched Telephone Network (PSTN) call.
• You receive a second PSTN call from a caller that has the same caller ID as the first call [or is Private Number].

In this scenario, the first call ends and you are unexpectedly transferred to the second call.

Continue reading ‘A New Call Barges In Over an Existing One’ »

A new update for the Lync 2013 client (kb2817621) takes us from “15.0.4517.1004” to “15.0.4517.1504”.

“This update contains stability and performance improvements. Additionally, this update fixes the following issue:

• After you wake up the computer from hibernation mode, Lync 2013 becomes very slow and unusable.”

Download

Download it from here:

• x86
• x64

I exited the client before installing the update, and there was no requirement to reboot the PC.

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