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Completely uninstall Lync for Mac 2011 (after upgrading to Skype for Business)
posted on November 18th 2016, at 14:43
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lunarg
Now that Skype for Business 2016 for Mac is publicly available, you could get rid of the old Lync for Mac 2011. Preferably, this should be a clean uninstall. Microsoft has released KB2691870, explaining how to do this.
The uninstall is not very elaborate: dragging the Lync application to the Trash is sufficient but leaves configuration, preferences and chat history on your Mac. To get rid of those, remove the following files:
~/Library/Preferences/com.microsoft.Lync.plist
~/Library/Preferences/ByHost/MicrosoftLyncRegistrationDB.*.plist
~/Library/Logs/Microsoft-Lync*.log
Remove these folders:
~/Documents/Microsoft User Data/Microsoft Lync Data
~/Documents/Microsoft User Data/Microsoft
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