Lync 2016 Client Preview vs Skype for Business Client Preview

Hi everyone!

I have a question regarding latest Lync/Skype for Business client which is now in public beta - version 16.0.3726.1006.

Last night my Office 16 (which was downloaded in January from Connect) got updated to that exact version.

Here's the thing: I almost do like that new Skype for Business client.

Why almost? Because once I opened it, had a couple of quick conversations with my colleagues, and then somehow I got this message on top saying something like "Your server is not supporting Skype yet or your admin prefers to stick with only Lync clients so we have downgraded yours. Click to restart your Lync client now."

Something like that. Didn't really screenshoted it.

Ok, well. It worked just fine, nothing was broken. Until that message poped out.

Is there any way to get that brand new and shining Skype for Business client back? And to make it stay at the same time ;-)

Thanks!

February 26th, 2015 9:00pm

This is fine - I mean testing thing and asking some far away admins regarding brand new beta software.

Sure thing, I do run betas like it should be: on VM, which could be redeployed any moment if something went south.

But all of these wasn't answering my question at all. Come on, this is not "Answers" here, right?

Once again, I was interesting in returning back that SFB client - it wasn't there even after I completely reinstalled my Click-to-Run installation. By completely I mean all the registry cleanup after Fixit from KB 2739501.

So, is there a way to bring it back and how it could be done? How make it stay at least until another Click-to-Run update? Actually these were my questions in the first place.


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March 2nd, 2015 7:16pm

Hi Vladimir,

Please navigate to HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Office\Lync and on the EnableSkypeUI enter the value 00 00 00 01

Cheers,
Chris

March 2nd, 2015 7:20pm

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