September was a big month for Lync 2013, as Microsoft has released a lot of updates to its Lync 2013 Client as well as some notable fixes. Click to Download Update (15.0.4535.1002)
A lot of nice new features are present, but in the attempts to add these features, unfortunately they had to remove a feature. Let’s discuss the good before the bad in the Lync 2013 Update Overview:
Added Features to Lync 2013:
- Spell Check has been added
- The notification Icon for Lync now updates with presence status
Lync 2013 Fixes:
- You can now drag a contact from Lync 2013 to another application
- Proxy Authentication dialog box should no longer appear
- Messages sent from Lync Web App should no longer display incorrect symbols to Lync 2013 clients
- A user can now sign into Lync 2013 when signing into a domain joined workstation with an account from a different AD forest
- Proxy authentication box should no longer appear after uploading a PowerPoint presentation in Lync 2013
- Corrected an issue where users on Windows 7 could not sign into Lync 2013
- Extended Characters now display correctly in Lync 2013 disclaimers
- You should now be able to start collaboration applications that are integrated with Lync 2013
Features Removed from Lync 2013:
- When you have a meeting scheduled, Lync will now no longer update your Lync status to “In a meeting.” This is a known issue which is being corrected, the work around is to manually set yourself to “Busy.”
Quite a lot of fixes! Unfortunately with the introduction of these fixes they had to break the In A meeting status update, but this should be resolved in the near future.
Make sure your client machines have the following updates:
Update |
Download Link |
MSO (KB2727096) | Download the 32-bit MSO update package nowDownload the 64-bit MSO update package now. |
MSORES (KB2817624) | Download the 32-bit MSORES update package now.Download the 64-bit MSORES update package now. |
IDCRL (KB2817626) | Download the 32-bit IDCRL update package now.Download the 64-bit IDCRL update package now. |
We hope your Lync 2013 Update goes smoothly. If we can support you during this process, please let us know.