After upgrading from Lync to Skype for Business I notice there's a welcome screen with 7 quick tips that appears on first use. Just looking for the registry value(s) to suppress this.

Hi,

I haven't known much about Skype for Business registry keys since there's only a preview version.

Anyway, I learned something from the previous version(Lync) to disable the Welcome screen, I tested it and didn't get the tips, please try if this works for you:

Important Follow the steps in this section carefully. Serious problems might occur if you modify the registry incorrectly. Before you modify it, back up the registry for restoration in case problems occur.

Press Win + R, type "regedit" in the blank box, press Enter.

Browse to:

HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Communicator

Create the DWORD: FirstRunPlayed

Set the value to as: 0

We can create this value on a test machine and check if this works. If yes, deploy it to all users then.

Regards,

Melon Chen
TechNet Community Su

During preliminary testing Ive found a value that seems to suppress it:

Key: HKCU\Sofware\Microsoft\Office\15.0\Lync

Value name: IsBasicTutorialSeenByUser

Value type: DWORD

Value data: 1

• Marked as answer by Melon Chen CHNMicrosoft contingent staff, Moderator 5 hours 8 minutes ago

During preliminary testing Ive found a value that seems to suppress it:

Key: HKCU\Sofware\Microsoft\Office\15.0\Lync

Value name: IsBasicTutorialSeenByUser

Value type: DWORD

Value data: 1

• Marked as answer by Melon Chen CHNMicrosoft contingent staff, Moderator Friday, April 24, 2015 2:22 AM

During preliminary testing Ive found a value that seems to suppress it:

Key: HKCU\Sofware\Microsoft\Office\15.0\Lync

Value name: IsBasicTutorialSeenByUser

Value type: DWORD

Value data: 1

• Marked as answer by Melon Chen CHNMicrosoft contingent staff, Moderator Friday, April 24, 2015 2:22 AM

During preliminary testing Ive found a value that seems to suppress it:

Key: HKCU\Sofware\Microsoft\Office\15.0\Lync

Value name: IsBasicTutorialSeenByUser

Value type: DWORD

Value data: 1

• Marked as answer by Melon Chen CHNMicrosoft contingent staff, Moderator Friday, April 24, 2015 2:22 AM

I can confirm that the IsBasicTutortialSeenByUser registry value is correct and is detailed in the following article: https://support.office.com/en-us/article/Switching-between-the-Skype-for-Business-and-the-Lync-client-user-interfaces-a2394a4c-7522-484c-a047-7b3289742be0?omkt=en-us&ui=en-US&rs=en-US&ad=US

Scroll down to the section 'Control the display of the Welcome screen tutorial'.

In case of Skype for Business (Part of MS Office 365) the value name is 'FirstRun'