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Ability to get "out of band" updates in ProPlus
We need a critical fix which MS have made available for Skype for Business It was released in December for Current Channel as a “Feature Update” (although oddly it’s not in the list of Feature U...
I may have misunderstood but If the fix is in the First Release for Deferred Channel now, that's version 1609, which will become the next Deferred Channel to be released on February 14, 2017. If they are saying it will be in the next First Release for Deferred Channel (1702?), that indeed would be released around June.
I don't know how big your fleet is but switching channels for your whole user base doesn't seem much of an option to me and may introduce other issues. Maybe Microsoft will release the fix sooner as a non-security update (despite what you have been told and depending how many reports they get).