Removing Lync and Skype Order of operations

Question

Hello,

We have migrated to Teams and have leftover Lync 2013 and Skype for Business 2015 servers still in our environment. I have found several sites that will help me uninstall Skype/Lync, but the question came up on which order should we do it. Should I uninstall Skype first and then Lync or the other way? Or does it even matter? I am trying to minimize the amount of orphaned objects that could be left after the uninstall process.

Any help or insights would be appreciated.

Links that i have already found to help uninstall Lync/Skype

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/archive/blogs/canitpro/step-by-step-uninstalling-a-microsoft-lync-server-2013

https://github.com/MicrosoftDocs/OfficeDocs-SkypeForBusiness/blob/live/Skype/SfbHybrid/hybrid/decommission-remove-on-prem.md

Thank you,

Bernard.

Answer 1

Hi @Pulai, Bernard

It does not matter which server you want to remove firstly. As the link above said, you could try to follow these steps to decommission.

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