![]() ![]() I just made your homework to keep us up and running. I hereby also allow Skype team to take over my code and use it to publish their own MSI via Skype website so I can remove the setup here. The audience to this article is more likely developers or expierenced system admin level and not end users. This documentation creates a native full-fledged MSI setup and NOT a bad MSI to EXE wrapper that creates ~100 new issues. So this is only the description how you can re-package the setup from EXE to MSI. With the extracted binaries a MSI setup can created, but I'm sorry this cannot shared here as the Skype client is not open source. Luckily there is Inno Setup Unpacker available to extract the content of the InnoSetup. That is the reason why there may not exists a MSI setup today. You need to install 8.x before this date.ĭownloaded latest EXE setup and took a look what setup this is now and found out they changed from great WiX Toolset to suxxx InnoSetup sh**. The current deadline for 7.x is 1 th November 2018. A solution is required as there was news around from a Skype employee named Babs that stated the old Skype Classic 7.x will still work for now, but may break in near future. Being surprised in weeks or months by a no longer working Skype client is not really an option. ![]() ![]() We need to make sure the meetings can take place. They pointed to other solutions like Skype for Business and noted that this team may know where the required MSI is, but they cannot help if it comes to end user Skype. The learning curve that customers cannot ignored seems not very strong if we keep the past mobile client fiasco in mind.Ĭontacted Skype support and they confirmed that MSI setup is not available and they named it no longer supported. It is not clear if these missing features also include the MSI setup. Originally when Skype 8.0 was released it was planed to discontinue the Skype 7 ("Skype Classic") support per 1 th September 2018, but they extended the deadline to 1 th November 2018, until some customer requested features are added back to 8.x. This means enterprise deployment is made impossible as EXE setups cannot deployed via Active Directory GPO deployment. The latest 8.x versions (8.28.0.41) seem no longer available as official MSI package. The last available version was Skype 7.41.101. If it still doesn’t work, checkout the webcam diagnostics tool from (and also try webcam with the classic Win32 AMCap application provided there to see if it does show a video feed or not).A few days ago I found out that the previouly hidden link used to download Skype as MSI setup is broken. Press OK to close the dialog and just run the installer again, this time it will proceed fine to install the desktop application for Skype which should work with your older webcam, provided you’ve installed the camera drivers at your system. Then, from the “Compatibility” tab select to run in compatibility mode for “Windows 7”. exe file of the installer and select “Properties” (should be the last option at the popup menu shown). So a workarround I had to do on my laptop was to trick their desktop application installer into thinking it was running on Windows 7. Note that they could have placed the classic (Win32) Skype application on the Windows Store too (which now supports deployment of such applications via a technology called Desktop Bridge), but I don’t think they’ve considered providing that option to the user either. They haven’t bothered to consider all those users that don’t have a supported webcam on UWP and force them to move to the Skype UWP-based Store app. What’s worse though is that although Skype provides a Windows desktop application download at their website ( ), when that one is launched on Windows 10 (probably that is the can on Windows 8 too), it just shows a message that one should use the respective Store app and takes one to the respective Windows Store webpage. older webcams that would allow modern UWP apps to work with such older webcams that do function fine with classic (Win32) applications, provided their classic Windows drivers are installed. Unfortunately, Microsoft hasn’t bothered to provide some frame grabber driver to bridge with DirectShow-based etc. On Windows 10, Microsoft (they’ve acquired Skype some years ago) provide a Windows Store app for Skype, however Universal Windows Platform (UWP) apps like that one don’t support older webcams (even the ones embedded in not-that-old laptops). ![]()
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