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
shared this idea
Please check “Teams/Skype Consumer chat and calling interop” on the public roadmap at microsoft.com/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters.. for updates.
528 comments
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Anon-1
commented
Not sure why the option to manipulate emoticons are prioritized over the integration with consumer Skype.
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Brad PFEFFER
commented
We do not want our users using Skype Consumer within the enterprise as we lack the tools to manage/audit/control the activities in Skype Consumer. We need the ability for enterprise users to use enterprise tools, Teams, while communicating with the outside world as necessary in Skype Consumer. They should be able to IM, Call, and conduct meetings with Skype Consumer users, all the while recording and storing their IM, Calls, and Meetings within Teams so that the organisation can maintain this data properly.
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Jeff B
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I spoke to a couple of Teams engineers while at Ignite last week and received two different explanations. One was that it was declined because they don't see this use case a lot. The other was that it is still on the roadmap. When I pressed and said it had been declined and removed from the roadmap the engineer repeated it will come but it is not a priority. So who knows if we'll ever get it.
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James
commented
Public Skype integration is needed to make Teams a complete product. If Teams is really the replacement for Skype for Business it should at least be able to call the millions of users in the Skype network. I am hoping that Skype for Business is not retired until that is fixed.
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Anonymous
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A change to TEAMS makes for me only sense with a skype (public) integration!!
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Dirk Suri
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Millions of users worldwide are using Skype in the Consumer version. I cannot understand this ridiculous decision!
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Benny Benson
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I've only just stumbled onto this after researching a potential date this was likely to be coming out and I'm shocked
By my understanding this feature was absolutely critical to the idea of moving away from Skype for Business and onto Teams as a consolidated platform. I've spent 12 months ensuring my users have moved away from using Consumer Skype as a business tool where we were unable to have any control over audit capabilities to something that puts us in a far better situation. I struggle to think how I will be able to convince them that they need to add a second tool (However much improved over SfB it may be) purely for internal communications when part of the problem would have been avoided by just letting them continue to use Consumer Skype in the first place which is unacceptable to me
Although this feature only has 455 votes at the time of me writing this, this feels like it has much farther reaching potential than 455 disgruntled administrators
The mobile connotations to this needs to be considered as well. Teams as was originally envisioned meant we only had to push one app to our users' devices and we could be confident they would be able to get the best of all worlds and they would be fully connected, but now we need to manage a second app but also try and ensure they are having the appropriate conversations within each app. Realistically we would need to prevent users from having internal discussions on Skype for Business to discourage this behaviour
We aren't privy to what this "priority shift" is internally, but I very strongly think this should be reconsidered. There is a very clear need for the capability of having video or IM conversations with individuals but that they not be part of any specific team in Teams, and forcing that conversation outside of Teams seems counter intuitive when Microsoft controls all of the related systems
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Anonymous
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Wow, wow! Microsoft!
Your agent recommends not using Skype in a corporate environment - https://answers.microsoft.com/ru-ru/skype/forum/skype_windesk-skype_startms-skype_installms/%D0%BE%D0%B1%D0%BD%D0%BE%D0%B2%D0%BB%D0%B5%D0%BD/081431ec-3ca2-4aad-af6d-3064ce36ff75
and recommends using Microsoft Teams.
But, you, however, reject the ability to make skype calls from Microsoft Teams?!
I totally don't understand this. -
Anonymous
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This is still needed!
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Anonymous
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Absolutely essential. It was one of our core reasons for moving to MS teams. We have loads of sales people who need to speak to their clients on Skype Consumer who don't use Teams or SfB.
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Bartek
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Please consider returning to this problem.
I understand that there is a FREE TEAMS, but I can not force clients to use a different application to communicate with us.
SFB must still exist to remain in contact with customers who use "ordinary skype"
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Marco Weber
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This is a must feature to use Microsoft Teams in an Sales oriented organization. Without the possibility to reach external Skype consumer user, Teams is highly inefficient.
As I can see this feature is still on the Roadmap, please make it a priority. Without that feature, we need to continue with skype consumer. -
Anonymous
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This means that Teams will not be the promised single environment for all collaboration tasks. That does not seem to be in line with the advertised mission statement.
We have been using Teams for a while now but our customer service and project management users have to coordinate their communication on Teams and Skype (consumer edition) simultaneously because Teams does not support the IM/chat (with call function) with Skype consumer users. Please reconsider this decision.
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Shayan
commented
why would you decline it!? are you out of your mind!?
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Chamingoo
commented
So many users or customers are using Skype in the Consumer version. I cannot not imagine why this has been declined! SfB does it. Teams should integrate all the best features of SfB. Slack and WebEx Teams has it too. So Teams, a Microsoft tool, will not be able to do it? Difficult to understand...
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Anonymous
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We want to upgrade from Skype Consumer to Teams but many senior members and the directors board are reluctant to, as then they will need to run two platforms. One to contact SfB and Teams contacts, and another to contact suppliers and clients who may not have the subscription software. If that's the case it will prevent our, and others adoption of the software.
I was of the impression that Teams was a collaboration platform that was meant to simplify team work and make it more efficient. It would be ideal if I could do most 'chat' communication (Outlook, Skype Consumer, SfB through Teams, so that I have one "communication/collaboration management" program. Otherwise it doesn't simplify things, but rather makes it more complicated and less likely to be adopted in the long term?
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Petr
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So the typical working day will look like switching between two IM clients, Teams and Skype. One for internal, another for external communication. Am I right this schizophrenia is not going to end?
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Wes
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So you want customers to use Teams as the communication tool but have not provided the ability to communicate with external Skype users. Thats a bit backwards! Especially when many organizations use this service for client communications, HR and sales meetings.
When will this functionality be available? Otherwise its pretty pointless. We will stick with Slack! -
Steen Kirkby
commented
It looks like the integration with consumer Skype is coming very soon.
From the Office 365 roadmap under "in development" features:Microsoft Teams - Calling Support between Teams and Skype Consumer
This is one of the SfB calling capabilities coming to Teams. Support for 1:1 Skype Consumer Calls. This feature is targeted for availability by Q2 CY 2018.
More info
Estimated Release: June CY2018
Feature ID: 24209
Added to Roadmap: 10/24/2017
Last modified : 05/01/2018 -
Lance Sandino
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funny that it's "declined" when SLACK has this feature and TEAMS wants to be SLACK....