Skype for Business Server 2015 Poised to Address 35% of Top 20 Community Requests at http://lync.ideascale.com

7 out of the top 20 community requested improvements appear set to be addressed by the Skype for Business Server 2015 release.

Rank	Vote	Description
1	164	Better Response Groups		Yes, partial
2	128	Convert sefautil.exe to standard shell cmdlets
3	127	Request to take control (for helpdesk)
4	123	ability to save a contact's number along with pauses and DTMF
5	119	Bring back the pre-SP1 emoticons
6	100	Ability to manage Hotkeys
7	97	Rule based call forwarding
8	93	REAL single PIN for Lync and Exchange
9	89	Forwarding on busy
10	73	Lync client for Mac improvements		Promised
11	73	Remove steps from the Lync 2013 Client call transfer process		Yes, partial
12	70	Admin level ability to disable Hide My Picture in Lync Client
13	68	Response Group Delay		Maybe
14	59	Busy on busy
15	58	Change status to Off-Work based on working hours
16	55	Expansion of Emoticons
17	50	Push IMs To All Clients		Yes
18	49	Lync Phone Edition should support DHCP timezone
19	48	Revamp the Desktop Sharing engine		Yes
20	47	Raise hand feature in conferences

1 Better Response Groups – Scalability improvements are known at this time.

10 Lync client for Mac improvements – Microsoft has promised to address this and in the mean time some improvements

11 Remove steps from the Lync 2013 Client call transfer process – From screenshots and demonstrations it looks like one click/hover was removed, so improved some!

13 Response Group Delay – Will scalability/performance improvements help with this? No guarantee

17 Push IMs To All Clients – Looks to be addressed in mobile client.

19 Revamp the Desktop Sharing engine – “10 times less bandwidth utilization than Lync 2013 RTM”