I happened to deploy Lync 2013 client recently to a large customer base, where I saw that Lync 2013 client deployment is not pretty straight forward when it comes to have Office 2010 installed as primary MS Office version and Lync will be the only candidate installed from 2013 family. Lync 2013 over a Windows 7 machine where Office 2010 is installed would require a system restart to make the installation complete, and when you try to install it through SCCM 2012 it fails if there is slight customization requirement missing.
Summary steps for deploying Lync 2013 via SCCM 2012:
1) Make Lync 2013 office customization package
2) Change Config.XML file located in x86\lync.ww or x64\lync.ww and change the below line as it is mentioned:
<Setting Id=”SETUP_REBOOT” Value=”never” />
This will ensure that SCCM 2012 deployment package will not allow Lync to restart and complete the deployment successfully.
Note: Don’t forget to place this file on the root of your installation (deployment) folder for SCCM to read it.
3) Create SCCM deployment package and keep the command line installation parameter as “setup.exe /adminfile <Lync2013OfficeCustomizationFileName>.MSP”.
Note: If I have missed any step then just follow normal application deployment steps of SCCM but remember to keep these important pieces in sequence to complete the deployment.
Now deploy the package to your SCCM collection and it should be fine.
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