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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.

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  • Anonymous commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    Unbelievable. We want one solution to chat and speak with regular /personal skype users. Now users won't adapt teams because this is one of the basic functions they need.

  • Graham Wharton commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    I find it astonishing that now that office 365 teams installations are now being rolled out with "Teams Only" coexistence mode by default and not allowed to be changed, that this feature is still some 6 months away from being rolled out. My mind is well and truly boggled!

    I thought one of the great things about upgrading to Office 365 business would be easier collaboration with my customers. Now being told that I cannot now use skype for business leaves my customers unable to make contact with me unless I revert to using skype consumer!!!

  • Anonymous commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    Just started using this app but was not able to find out how to add external contacts for chat. Is this functionality avb?

  • John Gwinner commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    This is absolutely a minimum requirement for us. We constantly make overseas voice calls to our customers and suppliers via Skype (NOT Skype for Business).

    What is also frustrating is that searching for this feature gets muddled up with "Skype for Business" as searching for "Teams to Skype" keeps matching S4B.

  • Peter H commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    @Alex : you posted 3 months ago that the Skype-Teams integration is 'officially planned'. Can you shed a light on when users can finally expect to see something then ?
    I have business partners that have been lulled into starting to use Teams, have been 'kicked out' of their Skype, and have no means of communicating with their customers world wide via neither system.…
    So we're back to good old landlines and mobiles...
    Thanks

  • Glyn commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    Can you integrate the Skype credit within office 365 so it can be used when making conference calls to clients whose organisation restricts Skype use ie governments, major companies. Or companies on platforms that do not use Microsoft Products due to policy.

  • Anonymous commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    can I make a discussion from several members of the team with different skype interlocutors?

  • Anonymous commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    This is fantastic news! Our BT team will surely be reviewing security and permissions before allowing this necessary function.

  • Thomas Lienhard commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    Communication between Consumer Skype and Teams is a very important feature that has to be implemented in Teams before Skype for Business is faded out.

  • Charles Rube commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    Since Teams phone system does not support SMS, at least provide consumers, i.e. customers, an option to use Skype to 'text' us.

  • Anonymous commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    Request an implementation that can easily change the display name of consumer Skype on the client.

  • Brian Walsh commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    @anthony Stansfield. According to the roadmap, this is in development, and scheduled for Q1 2020

    https://www.microsoft.com/en-ie/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=consumer%2C

    Microsoft Teams - Teams/Skype Consumer chat and calling interop

    Enable Teams and Skype for Consumers users to chat and make VoIP calls to each other

    Featured ID: 53935
    Added to Roadmap: 7/30/2019
    Last Modified: 8/1/2019
    Tags: Microsoft Teams, O365

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