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Are they Office 365 installations, or perpetual license (DVD) installations? - ondrar 6 years ago

none are 365. downloaded ISO from MS volume licensing service center for the full version. - Dee.Wood 6 years ago

basic was an .exe downloaded from Skype website and put on base image before sysprep. - Dee.Wood 6 years ago

Hello,
I think it is not feasible to upgrade Skype for Business basic to Skype for Business 2016 directly. However, there is a way we can remove Skype for Business basic using the Office Deployment Tool. Here are the steps for your reference:



If Skype for Business is installed separately and offline installer :

Edit the Configuration.xml file with the following code:

<Configuration Product="lync">
<Display Level="none" CompletionNotice="no" SuppressModal="yes" AcceptEula="Yes" />
<Setting Id="SETUP_REBOOT" Value="Never" />
</Configuration>

And Pass this config file in the below uninstall command(.bat or .cmd)
setup.exe /uninstall Lync /config "Path of config file"

If Skype for Business is installed along with Office suite
1. Download Office 2016 deployment tool from Microsoft link
2. Edit the Configuration.xml file with the following code:

<Configuration>
<Add OfficeClientEdition="32" >
<Product ID="O365BusinessRetail">
<Language ID="en-us" />
<ExcludeApp ID="Lync" />
</Product>
</Add>
<Updates Enabled="TRUE"/>
<Display Level="None" AcceptEULA="TRUE" />
<Logging Level="Standard" Path="%temp%" />
</Configuration>

3. Then run the following command:
setup.exe /configure "Path of the config file"



Hope this helps you ! Thank you ! - LRS 6 years ago