To cleanly uninstall Lync for Mac 2011, follow these steps: Sep 02, 2015 Download Microsoft Outlook for Mac for Office 365. From Official Microsoft Download Center. Supported Operating System Apple Mac OS X, Macintosh Mac OS X 10.9.3 and above. For people who already have Office for Mac 2011 and Outlook for Mac 2011 installed on their Mac.
I’m supposed to be working on my Ignite slides, but I just ran into something that has flipped my safeties.
I'm on Office for Mac 2015 (my work supplies this, I use the same credentials as my work account to sign in) and have not been able to get Lync to work. I have not problems signing into office 365 online, it just seems to be Lync. Lync Server 2013 customers should consider upgrading their installation to Skype for Business Server 2015, or downloading the latest Lync Server 2013 Cumulative Update version 8308.974 or higher. Lync Server 2010 is not supported – instead we recommend customers continue to use the Lync for Mac 2011 client. Lync integrates with other Office programs and is available for Windows, Mac, Windows Phone, iPhone, iPod, Android, and Office 365 subscribers. Lync Basic 2013 provides all the basic functionality that’s available in the full version of Lync (Lync 2013). How to Mac tutorial, Apple blog, Top Apple Mac OS X Tutorials and Mac tips and tricks covering Mac OS X, Sierra, El Captian 10.11, Yosemite, Maverick, iPhone, IPad, iPod, Macbook Air, Macbook Pro, Mac Pro, Apple TV, Iphone X, IMAC, Mac Mini. Apple Store Application Reviews and recommendations.
I just don’t understand.
Sure, I know the Lync/Skype for Business team has a lot of irons in the fire, what with their new product line and all. And I get that the Mac install base is small relative to the other things they have to do. But there is no reason I can see for the Mac Lync client to be as buggy and underfeatured as it is. They’ve had years to improve it.
Lync For Mac 2011
The Lync PG has proven they can do rapid engineering work, as evidenced by the excellent speed and quality of the Lync mobile apps for Android and iOS.
And they’ve proven they can build a robust client, as evidenced by the history of the Lync desktop client for Windows.
The Mac Office team, for their part, has shown that they can produce high-quality clients that reliably work with Microsoft’s services.
So why does the Mac Lync client make me want to start throwing things?
Today’s example: I am signed into Lync with my work account. I want to create a meeting in my personal Exchange calendar, invite attendees, and set it up as an online meeting. This is trivial using Windows Outlook and the Lync (and, now, SfB) client: create the invite, click the “Lync meeting” button, and boom.
On the Mac, however, this scenario doesn’t work– clicking the “Online Meeting” button produces an obnoxious dialog telling me that I must be signed in to the same account in Lync as I’m using in Outlook.
This is just the latest in the pecked-to-death-by-ducks experience of using the Lync client on a Mac. In honesty, the client is more stable and has more features than its predecessors; hell, it even supports the Conversation History folder now. But what I want is a robust client, with feature parity with Windows, that works to enable the same scenarios I can easily perform in Windows. That’s not too much to ask.
I don’t know (and, as an end user, don’t care) which team inside Microsoft owns this. And I don’t have an opinion on who should own it. All I want is a solid client experience.
(And while I am on a rant: damnit, the Windows Phone sync client for the Mac is a giant pile of fail. Microsoft has apparently abandoned it in place. Bug reports go into a black hole. Latest example: after months of prerelease availability, Apple released the Photos app and… surprise… the WP8 sync app doesn’t work with it.)
This article describes the February, 2016, update (KB3139293) for Microsoft Lync for Mac 2011. This update fixes several issues. Check out the prerequisites before you install the update.
Get update 3139293 for Lync for Mac 2011 14.3.3
The following file is available for download from the Microsoft Download Center:
Download the Lync for Mac 2011 14.3.3 update package now.
Release Date: February 2016
For more information about how to download Microsoft support files, click the following article number to view the article in the Microsoft Knowledge Base:
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How to install this update
Prerequisites
Before you install the Lync for Mac 2011 14.3.3 update on your computer, you must uninstall any version of Lync for Mac 2011 that is earlier than Lync for Mac 2011 14.0.4. Additionally, you must make sure that the computer is running Mac OS X 10.5 or a later version of the Mac OS X operating system.
To verify that the computer meets the operating system version prerequisite, click About This Mac on the Apple menu.
To determine the version of Lync for Mac 2011 that is installed on your computer, follow these steps:
On the Go menu, click Applications.
Start Lync for Mac 2011.
On the Lync menu, click About Lync.
The version number of Lync for Mac 2011 is displayed in the About Lync dialog box.
Lync For Mac 2011
Restart requirement
After you install the Lync for Mac 2011 14.3.3 update, we recommend that you restart the computer before you sign in to Lync for Mac 2011.
Update replacement information
This update replaces the October 2015 update for Lync for Mac 2011 14.2.1.
Issues that the update fixes
This update fixes the issues that are described in the following articles in the Microsoft Knowledge Base:
More Information
Lync For Mac 2015 Torrent
See the general information about resources for Lync for Mac 2011.
Lync For Mac 2015 Download
Third-party information disclaimer
The third-party products that this article discusses are manufactured by companies that are independent of Microsoft. Microsoft makes no warranty, implied or otherwise, about the performance or reliability of these products.
References
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