A customized Lync 2010 Help URL does not work in Lync 2010

Symptoms

Consider the following scenario:

• You set the CustomizedHelpUrl and EnableEnterpriseCustomizedHelp parameters to configure a client policy to customize the Lync 2010 Help Menu in a Microsoft Lync Server 2010 environment.

• You apply the client policy to the users in the environment.

• The update that is mentioned in Microsoft Knowledge Base (KB) article 2514982 is applied to a computer that Lync 2010 runs on.

• A user signs in to Lync 2010.

• The user clicks Lync Help F1 under Help.

In this scenario, Lync 2010 opens the following webpage instead of the customized webpage:

Lync 2010 Help

Resolution

To resolve this issue, install the following cumulative update:

2670326 Description of the cumulative update for Lync 2010: February 2012

More Information

For more information about how to set a client policy, visit the following Microsoft website:

General information about how to a set client policyFor more information about how to customize the Lync 2010 Help menu, visit the following Microsoft website:

How to customize the Lync 2010 Help menu For more information, click the following article number to view the article in the Microsoft Knowledge Base:

2514982 Description of the cumulative update for Lync 2010: November 2011