Quick Tip: Windows Insider Build 15007 + Skype for Business = Freezing
This will be indeed be a quick tip. Last Friday I updated to Windows Insider Build 15007. I love being on the bleeding edge of technology but every once in a while things don’t go the way you want them. Monday morning I found that SfB Client wasn’t loading anymore. Now I’m in the Insider Fast for Office as well (I could open Outlook Meetings and more). So I assumed it was a new build of Office and rolled that back to production. The problem continued.
I jumped over to EventViewer to see if there was anything useful – typically there is not and I found this:
Figured having whatever Spectrum.exe crashing every second wasn’t a good thing. So a bit of hunting around and I found this post:
https://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/insider/forum/insider_wintp-insider_devices/build-15007-no-audio-issue-workaround/c4c931ff-0201-42b5-8725-998a3e22c803
Which tells us to blow away a folder and restart:
Rmdir /s %ProgramData%\Microsoft\Spectrum\PersistedSpatialAnchors
Shutdown /r
After the reboot all was good. Now to put the Office Insiders Fast ring back on.