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The Something Awful Forums > Discussion > Serious Hardware/Software Crap > Skype for Business - where instant messaging goes to die
 
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Bunni-kat
May 25, 2010

Service Desk B-b-bunny...
How can-ca-caaaaan I
help-p-p-p you?
Our fresh images on machines come with Skype for Business, AND Skype, but we use Lync, and when you first launch Skype for Business it will downgrade automatically to Lync. But it confuses the hell out of users, because there's also some bug where if you search the start menu for Lync, you get nothing, but search Skype for Business and you get lync.exe.

Also, I hate that every 10 minutes I get a notification saying "We've saved this conversation. blah blah blah." I want it to save, but to also SHUT UP.

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Bunni-kat
May 25, 2010

Service Desk B-b-bunny...
How can-ca-caaaaan I
help-p-p-p you?

Old Binsby posted:

I've been doing more Exchange than Lync/SfB lately so I might be mistaken, but there should be a client policy that forces either the Lync client 'experience' or the Skype one. Depending on server version (Lync10/13/SfB15/Online) there are different ways to do that but all on-prem ones are (assuming you actually want SfB
code:
Set-CSClientPolicy 'Policyname' -EnableSkypeUI $true
If you're creating a new user-based policy you also have to Grant-CsPolicy. So if you didn't already, try to force the one you like that way? There's also a regkey locally that does this but it gets reset every time you restart Lync and it loads the policy iirc.


This is all great info, but unfortunately, I'm just the guy people call when they can't figure stuff out. The people in charge of setting up the machines are a different group, and they...don't like advice. I don't even know what they use to image computers. It's like a black box over there. Requests go in, results go out, but no one knows how it happens.

And with these comments on Microsoft teams, I'm scare we're going to push that out at some point now.

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