Category: skypeforbusiness

Set your Office 2016 Update Channel with Registry Key or Group Policy

Set your Office 2016 Update Channel with Registry Key or Group Policy

Published by Tom Arbuthnot on January 5, 2016

Update: for a quick way to do this with PowerShell see: blog here ########## As discussed in this post, Understanding Office Click-to-Run, Branches, MSI and Skype…

Microsoft Acquires Communication Startup Talko, Plan to Integrate Tech into Skype

Microsoft Acquires Communication Startup Talko, Plan to Integrate Tech into Skype

Published by Tom Arbuthnot on December 21, 2015

Gurdeep Singh Pall, Corporate Vice President Skype announced today that Microsoft has acquired Ray Ozzie’s team communication startup Talko, maker of an innovative mobile app…

Office 2016 Skype for Business GPO Settings

Office 2016 Skype for Business GPO Settings

Published by Tom Arbuthnot on December 20, 2015

Group Policy is falling out of fashion these days, with more settings being defined in-band which is easier for Office 365 and non-domain joined machines,…

Understanding Office Click-to-Run, Channels and MSI

Understanding Office Click-to-Run, Channels and MSI

Published by Tom Arbuthnot on December 20, 2015

When you are deploying or supporting Skype for Business, client support and patching is a key, and there are quite a few client types/versions you…

Office 2016 Click to Run Skype for Business First Run Crash Workaround

Office 2016 Click to Run Skype for Business First Run Crash Workaround

Published by Tom Arbuthnot on December 17, 2015

I just installed a fresh Office 2016 click to run instance and got stuck in a crash loop. I installed from an MSDN ISO,…