Hi all,

we currently massively use Office 2010/Lync 2010 on our organization.

We want to upgrade to Office 2013/Skype Entreprise.

Is there a way to deploy Office 2013 and Skype Entreprise directly without having Lync 2013 waiting to be patched to S4b by WSUS/SCCM ?

We don't want our users to have to learn using Lync 2013 UI for a few days or weeks and then having to learn a new UI with Skype4b

We are using SCCM 2012 R2 to deploy applications.

Thanks

Hi,

So far, you have to firstly install Lync 2013 client and then update to SFB 2015 client.

Until Office 2016 is released, THIS is your client-side update path to Skype for Business: Install Lync 2013 from Office 2013 and then patch it with this (or a later) update & the necessary pre-reqs. You will also use this patch to turn your Lync Basic client into a Skype for Business Basic. (Read more of the free Basic client here).

If you want to manage the rollout of this internally via SCCM or WSUS, the two KBs youre interested in are these:

https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/kb/2889923   this is the update

https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/kb/2889853   this is the (new) pre-requisite update to LyncHelpLoc

Best Regards,
Eason Huang

I have try this, it seems to work but I have a little problem :

Some menus are empty

I install this patches :

lync-x-none-KB2889853.msp
lynchelp-fr-fr-KB2889853.msp
lync-x-none-KB2889923.msp
mso-x-none-KB2889923.msp
mso-x-none- KB3054853.msp
lync-x-none-KB3054791.msp

did I forget something?

Hi,

From the KB3054791, you may meet the KB 3051158 "Help isn't working" error occurs when you open the "Skype for Business Help" window in Skype for Business.

https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/kb/3054791

You could uninstall KB3054791 and then test the issue again.

Best Regards,
Eason Huang

https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/kb/3051158

They say you have to install update for Skype for Business (KB2889853)

And I install it

But I will try to not install KB3054791