Skype integration (Consumer Federation)
It would be nice to integrate public Skype (not Skype for Business) into Teams. I am able to chat with Skype for business users within my organization but when working with external clients I still have to go back to public Skype. If I could even just simply chat and call with Skype users as well that would allow me to use Teams as my sole communication platform.
Matt
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Admins can now enable their tenant to allow Teams users to chat with and call Skype users by using their email address and vice versa.
More details here: https://docs.microsoft.com/microsoftteams/teams-skype-interop for more details
Enjoy!
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Elie Barbour
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Progress here although Q1 has ended 1 month and 7 days ago almost
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jose s
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I have enabled users to communicate with Skype users but it doesn't work.
Has it been realeased yet or not?
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Clint
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No real responce from Microsoft.
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Anonymous
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Is this released or not yet?
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Technonath
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according to what I have just read here: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoftteams/teams-only-mode-considerations
Users who are upgraded to Teams Only cannot communicate with users who are using Skype for Consumer!!!!
Oh dear, talk about making life difficult microsoft.
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RavenActual
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Not sure what the real time line is for this. I found out yesterday that while this feature is in "preview" and the roadmap shows as "in development" with a Q1 timeframe, there is no general release date established at this time. This came from a Teams Support Engineer with Premiere Support, and his supervisor confirmed. Not exactly authoritative sources, but you would think they would have some rough idea.
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Vladimir Zhirnov
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integration with User Skype should be a priority, without it, the value of Teams falls by 50%.
We are really looking forward to this feature.
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your roadmow is very strange - it ends in April, which also ends today, this is not a roadmap - this is a report on the work done -
Anonymous
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When will this be available? Really feel handicapped to work without this feature. This feature is extremely critical to our business, especially now with so many more people working from home
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Len
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any update on this???????...it is the end of April and still does not work. Opened a case with MS support and had me confirm all settings are correct. Still does not work in our Tenant and support could not give me any estimate on when the feature would be implemented. This feature is critical to our business, especially now with so many more people working from home. The least that you could do is provide an accurate timeline.
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Anonymous
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a general comment: will this be implemented also for the education license? Currently, it seems as this is not the case?
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Tamas Pilisko
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Honestly I am a bit sad and frustrated.
This feature was very useful in S4B for me as a self-employed. At this moment this missed feature is blocking me, Integration with Skype consumers is very important for business continuity.
I had to switch off this service because one of my business partner found my business email address in Skype and he can see my present status. He can call me but the semifinished Teams service show as an 'Unknown User', of course I am not able to call back an 'Unknown User' and I cannot send chat message to him. He could send me chat message without any error message but the chat message never reaches me in Teams.I have at least 3 open cases at Microsoft Support. One of the Microsoft Support Agents is waiting for me to provide an update on the Case but the update should come from an another Microsoft Support Agent.
I am on O365 since 2013. Maybe it’s time for me to try another provider...
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Anonymous
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It would be very helpful zu communicate with our customers and supplier who using skype.
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Anonymous
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It is necessary that there is no difference in use between different systems, so Teams must understand Skype and vice versa if or if
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Martin Coupal
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Will we be able to chat with a free teams user as an external user (not as a guest user)?
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Anonymous
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It is necessary that there is no difference in use between different systems, so Teams must understand Skype and vice versa if or if
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Anonymous
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It's available in my tenancy, under Org-wide settings | External access
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Technonath
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According to some articles, they say it has launched now,
https://office365itpros.com/2020/03/10/teams-skype-consumer-connect-together/
https://www.theregister.co.uk/2020/04/08/microsoft_teams_improvements/
https://www.thurrott.com/cloud/microsoft-consumer-services/232283/microsoft-teams-will-soon-let-you-communicate-with-skype-users
https://www.zdnet.com/article/microsoft-teams-users-to-get-federation-with-skype-consumer-service-starting-in-late-march/some of these articles have been updated now to say the end of april now
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Anonymous
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Integration with Skype consumers is very important for business continuity.
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Erdem Çokçeken
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Skype integration is the main reason we switched form gsuite to ms365. Many of our customers use Skype Consumer edition and to be honest the Modern user interface of skype is not for business users. No pressure but Consumer Federation will make Teams go to app for many business out there. Waiting fingers crossed.
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briann55
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This lack of functionality alone prevents Teams from being a viable business solution.
