I then went to step 2 again and the removal was successfully 🙂 Bye Bye old Edge 🙂 I grabbed the Lync 2013 Server media and ran setup.exe which installed the C++ 2012 version 7 🙂 I decided to install the version it was mentioning which is installed as part of the Lync 2013 installation.

I checked programs and features on the server and C++ 2012 version 7 was missing but i did have a newer version. “Microsoft Lync 2013 Server installation or uninstallation requires that Microsoft Visual C++ 2012 圆4 Minimum Runtime – 7 Package is already installed.failure code 1603” I next looked into the text above the error stating I restarted the server first and re ran the Lync deployment Wizard but the error was the same.

I had removed the Edge server from topology, published previously, Edge had received CMS update and knew it was removed from the topology and was running step 2 of the Lync deployment wizard to remove the Edge role from the Server and came across this. Came across this error last week whilst decommissioning an Lync 2013 Edge Server.

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