While the new features worked great, I couldn't help but notice that the new icons were either completely missing or showed incorrectly, as in the below screenshots:
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| Note the missing icon for "Q & A" |
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| Note the weird icon on the right where the meeting icon should be |
Keeping an eye on those files, I reinstalled the Lync 2013 CU2 update once again. However, they never changed from their default value. Going on what I heard from others, I went to Windows Update to install the latest updates for Office 2013. Several were found on my first pass. I noticed that MSORES.DLL seemed to be updated by KB2817489 to 15.0.4517.1003 , but MSO.DLL was untouched. With that update, the wonky icon showed up correctly, but the icons for "Q & A" and "No Meeting IM" were still missing.
Re-running Windows Update again installed a few more updates, notably KB2817491. This updated MSO.DLL to 15.0.4517.1005, at which point all the icons showed up normally.
If you read the description for KB2817489, it says the update should fix the Q & A and ME icons (whatever that is). The description page for KB2817491 is currently not available, so I can't tell what it does. The patch is apparently for Office 2013 x64, but I was running x32, and it updated the x32 version of MSO.DLL. There may be some documentation fixing to do.
So, if you install Lync 2013 CU2, make sure you run Windows Update not just once, but TWICE to ensure you get all the updates necessary for Lync 2013 to work properly.
What did I learn from all this? MSORES.DLL stores the icons for the main Lync page, while MSO.DLL stores other icons. Also, not all Lync file updates come in one nice package, as you would hope.
On a final note, I have to say that I am not a fan of this process. I understand that Lync 2013 is now part of Office 2013, but is it too much to ask that if an update is put out for Lync 2013, that update should include ALL the required DLL updates? I shouldn't have to install multiple seemingly unrelated updates just to get a fully functional Lync 2013 client. This took up a good half a day of troubleshooting that would have been better spent doing other things.
By the way, I want to give special thanks to Dave Howe from Microsoft. If it weren't for him asking about MSO/MSORES, it would have taken a lot longer to figure out the solution.
Thanks for the info. Just what I was looking for. I agree that the Lync update should include all the required pre-reqs to make it work!
ReplyDeleteWe noticed this with the beta version of the CU2 client updates. It looks like Windows 8 might make the problem worse due to the way Windows Update works. It's more than one update that needs more than one reboot, and Windows 8 doesn't really tell you that you need to do this. After the first update, Windows 8 won't automatically tell you that you need to install and reboot two more times. This will cause some problems, I would assume.
ReplyDeleteI only have the 32-bit version of Lync 2013. I installed KB2817489 and that made the lync icon worse. Instead of a phone with an x, its a few dots that looks like dirt on the monitor!
ReplyDeleteSo I guess I'll try to install KB2817491 as well.
I guess I can place these in the \updates folder in our dfs\applications\lync2013 folder so virgin installs automatically include this, along with CU2.
Somehow the meetings view icon doesn't show up in my Lync client. I have the rest of the new features from the July update. If I try to install KB2817489, I get the message that it's already installed on my system, while KB2817491 doesn't affect any programs installed on my system.
ReplyDeleteI run Windows 8 Enterprise x64 with Office 2013 Professional Plus x64. Any help would be appreciated. Thanks...
I did everything that was in this post and everytime I get "There are nog product affected by this package installed on this system". I have Office 2010 Standard x86 with Lync 2013 basic x86.
ReplyDeleteThe calendar tab (meetings) still isn't present. What to do?