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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Integration with Skype Consumer is no longer under review, and officially planned.
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Anonymous
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I think users should decide the Skype version they want to use. The Bus-version is for company's not for most of us.
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Anonymous
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@Daniel...it says "Call Support between Teams &
Skype Consumer" on page 6 of 7. -
Daniel van der Zee
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@warren I don't see anything called consumer federation on the road map you linked to - I also get 0 hits on "convergence".
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Alejandro Sumano
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It is annoying to have skype and teams in separate applications. Since many of my contacts do not have teams and it is not very productive to have two chat`s (business skype and teams). But it would be fantastic that they could merge them and from there emerge a more productive skype
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Adam
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Having the ability to have consumer skype integrated would make migration to the teams platform 100 times easier. We want to migrate groups of people, and not having consumer skype integrated (which we use for business) makes it very difficult to migrate.
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Bert
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As Skype for Business are to be integrated with Teams, that would take would take care of this request in the end?
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Anonymous
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Or alternatively create an embedded/integrated ability to link the meeting from within Teams directly to both a) meeting notes & b) screenshare.
Regardless of which option, the ability to record the screen, etc should be allowed.
Basically, integrate skype for business (everything) into Teams functionality.
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Daniel van der Zee
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We have the exact same issue. Quite a few staff are happy with Skype and see no reason to switch to Teams. To make matters worse is that we don't have a centralised IT department that maintains staff workstations, or can mandate the tool of choice.
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Juan
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If Teams is to replace Skype for Business; VOIP Calling, MMS & SMS features are a must!
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Mark Lutz
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I will not be able to fully deploy this until we have the ability to interact with external users. We need to collaborate with consultants contractors and even customers. Skype integrations is required at least. Adding additional chat integrations would also be very helpful. This cannot come as a surprise and since it is already in Skype for Business I can't see why this was not addressed prior to release.
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Havenn Murray
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I honestly see a lot of people sticking with Skype for Business until it's completely deprecated if the ability to chat with people on the consumer version of Skype from Teams and vice versa isn't added.
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Julian Knight
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This would be good. BUT it needs some careful implementation. It would be disasterous if Skype were integrated without the ability for central admin control over who can allow Skype integration.
For the majority of our groups, we would not currently be able to allow Skype integration due to information governance issues. So we would need to have the ability to turn it off for a default setting and for admins only to be able to turn it on for specific teams.
Otherwise, we would not be able to use Teams at all.
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Henk Thomassen
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It is expected that integration between Teams and Skype for Business Online will increase. The integration between Teams and Skype for Business On Premises (which is currently zero) should also increase. This should include Enterprise Voice, i.e. integration between Teams and the Enterprise Voice functionality of Skype for Business Online, then also the Enterprise Voice functionality of Skype for Business On Premises (e.g. Dial-in conferencing, dial out to PSTN numbers, switch a call or meeting from PC audio to a PSTN number).
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Christopher J Pola
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Microsoft: we see inconsistent results with Chat/Instant Messages being delivered btwn Skype users and MS Teams users. Is this a real feature or should we ignore the central 'Chat' functionality. What is the best practice? What is the formal roadmap for the products and the Chat feature being shared btwn them?
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Kuba
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Exactly, we also need to communicate with clients via regular skype since they are outside our network and sharepoint. Also they are unlikely going to change to teams. Possibility for calling and texting using skype would be great and would not make us use two communicators instead of one.
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Al S
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Good-grief why isn't this a feature yet? Merge communications please!
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Phil Carbone
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At my company a lot of people have teens at home during the summer, etc. It doesn't make sense that they have to run another app just to communicate with people. In 2017+ communication, federated, is just a must. Especially if MS owns the communication channel. I am the decision make at our business in regards to this stuff, and not being able to bridge Teams over to the public skype is a huge problem - administrators should be able to choose what makes sense at their business (enable/disable public skype)
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Avraham Gelbfish
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I am looking into getting the company I work for to switch over to Teams, but the barrier would be that everyone on Skype would have to switch in order to use it normally. It would make the transition easier if Teams was fully integrated with regular Skype.
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Anonymous
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Communicate with skype members and share screen to avoid using two platforms.
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David
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I know it is still early, but this is far better than Skype for bussiness. It would be great if we could make VoIP calls with this