Roll back from Skype for business to Lync 2013

If you have installed Skype for Business & want to roll this back to Lync 2013 you need to un-install a couple of KB updates.

The updates that need to be un-installed to roll back to the previous version of Lync are KB2889853 & KB2889923 once these have been removed you will go from the new Skype for Business to the old Lync 2013.

April 17th, 2015 5:44am

Thanks for sharing
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April 19th, 2015 6:24am

Thanks for sharing this.  Just rolled back.  That color scheme was killing me.  And I'm usually not one who gets all up in arms about a changed interface.
April 21st, 2015 10:41am

Just to add to this:

If it's just the UI you can also set this through Set-CsClientPolicy.

Set-CsClientPolicy -Identity Global -EnableSkypeUI $false

https://technet.microsoft.com/library/dn954919.aspx?f=255&MSPPError=-2147217396

However, using this method, some things are still Skype branded (i.e the meeting add-in in Outlook will say "New Skype Meeting") but the UI will now be back at Lync 2013.

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April 21st, 2015 11:44am

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