Brian Reid – Microsoft 365 Subject Matter Expert

Conversation Red Number in Skype For Business That Won’t Go Away

I have had this issue for ages, but could not find any answer for it on the internet that did not involve resetting Skype for Business or other complex stuff when in fact the answer is so easy it hurts! Finding it was one of those Duh! moments.

You have this:

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Skype for Business shows a red flag in one of the sections that will not go away. In my case it was the Conversation History pane and all the conversations in the view were read!

Then one day in Outlook I noticed the Missed Conversations view in Outlook:

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Its a Search View and it was already active for me, but look – it also says one conversation unread. So I scrolled down the list of conversations in Outlook, found the unread one and the issue went away in Skype for Business within seconds.

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This issue will probably be true for Teams as well when Outlook Conversation History functionality moves over to that product as well from Skype for Business Online!

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17 responses to “Conversation Red Number in Skype For Business That Won’t Go Away”

  1. Todd avatar
    Todd

    Brian, Thank you, Thank you, Thank you!!! It worked just like you said!

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  2. Josh avatar
    Josh

    Brian, thank you. It was driving me absolutely bonkers.

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  3. Debbi Simon avatar
    Debbi Simon

    That was making me crazy! Thank you for the simple explanation

    Reply
  4. Igor avatar
    Igor

    Didn’t work for me, all missed conversations and calls mails were read. After months of struggling, I got rid of the badge by deleting the SfB cache at:

    C:\Users\%USERNAME%\AppData\Local\Microsoft\Office\16.0\Lync

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    1. Jan avatar
      Jan

      @Igor
      Thank you so much. Only had 1 unread, so just deleted the one named the same as the other user and the notification was gone.

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    2. Vignesh G avatar
      Vignesh G

      Thank you ,,Its Work for me

      Reply
  5. Eric avatar
    Eric

    Thank you. Tried everything including the cache. Was driving me nuts.

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  6. Brian avatar
    Brian

    That’s exactly what I was looking for, thank you!

    Reply
  7. Nick avatar
    Nick

    Ace! Thanks for taking the time to post this

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  8. Todd avatar
    Todd

    Thank you very much that is just what I needed on a Friday! A clean dashboard on Skype!

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  9. Lars avatar
    Lars

    Thank you Sir, you rock! That icon makes me go insane and now I know what to do to make it go away. I started clicking the correct unread conversations in Outlook and it did not work initially, so I selected the whole bunch and chose “mark as read” which worked. Such as Todd remarks “what I needed on a Friday” 🙂 Cheers and have a fancredible weekend!

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  10. Lauren avatar
    Lauren

    BLESS YOU!!! This has been driving me crazy. Worked like a charm. I didn’t know that folder was there in Outlook.

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  11. pau avatar
    pau

    thank you so much, it was driving me mad!

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  12. Robert T avatar
    Robert T

    This may not even be seen but THANK YOU!!!
    Drove me OCD crazy

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  13. Marcelo avatar
    Marcelo

    thank you so much!!

    Reply
  14. christa avatar
    christa

    THANK YOU!!!!

    Reply
  15. James TNH Dolphin avatar
    James TNH Dolphin

    Thank you for THIS!!!! That red 1 was driving me insane!!!!

    Reply

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