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Why does Skype for Business (Plan 2) license only allow download of Skype for Business 2015?
Is it working on any other plans? There should be options for which clients as available to download within your admin portal. S4B 2015 is really Lync 2013 with a skin on it (via a patch) to call it Skype.
If your portal is set to only allow the 2013 edition of office/skype as a download you'll only see S4B 2015. If you allow the office 2016 edition of Skype to download then you'll end up with S4B 2016.
By default, with Skype for Business Plan 2 we should be able to download the Skype for Business 20015 and Skype for Business 2016 Client both. For being able to download the Skype for Business 2016 Client we should allow downloading the 2016 Application from the Settings.
Be it any plan we should be able to download both the SFB 2015 and SFB 2016 Client from the Office 365 Portal. In addition, we can also download the Skype for Business Client from the following link
SFB 2016
https://www.microsoft.com/en-in/download/details.aspx?id=49440
- As per my first post, there is virtually no difference between the 2015 and 2016 versions.
Also the link you have provided is to the Basic client, which has less features than the client available from O365.I dont see any difference in the Client from the Office 365 Portal and the Client from the link which I gave ultimatley both are the basic client if we look at it. If required here are the link for Skype for Business 2015 and Skype for Business 2016 from the Office 365 Portal
Skype for Business (SFB) Click to Run installer.
SFB 2016 32 bit {use this set with office 32 bit 2016 } :
32 - Bit - https://c2rsetup.officeapps.live.com/c2r/download.aspx?productReleaseID=SkypeforbusinessEntryRetail&platform=x86&language=en-us&source=O16O365&version=O16GA
SFB 2016 [64 bit {use this set with office 64 bit 2016 }:
64 - Bit - https://c2rsetup.officeapps.live.com/c2r/download.aspx?productReleaseID=SkypeforbusinessEntryRetail&platform=x64&language=en-us&source=O16O365&version=O16GA
SFB 2015 32 bit {use this set with office 32 bit 2013} :
For X86: https://c2rsetup.officeapps.live.com/c2r/download.aspx?productReleaseID=lyncEntryRetail&platform=x86&language=en-us&source=O15O365&version=O15GA
SFB 2015 64 bit {use this set with office 64 bit 2013}:X64: https://c2rsetup.officeapps.live.com/c2r/download.aspx?productReleaseID=lyncEntryRetail&platform=x64&language=en-us&source=O15O365&version=O15GA
Refer here for the differences: https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dn933896.aspx
Basic is missing some of the call controls and other features. If you're using Office 365 you should just get the edition that's coming from your tenant.
