Think of Microsoft Teams as two distinct tools rolled into one, and then you’ll know how to approach it vis-vis Skype for Business.Certified for Skype® for Business, Cisco. Kevin Kieller, Co-Founder of enable UC, articulated in a No Jitter post that Microsoft Teams isn’t a straight replacement for Skype for Business. Teams isn’t a straight replacement for Skype.Until then, current Skype for Business Online customers will experience no change in service. Until I can actually uninstall my Skype for Business client on my Mac, I will hold firm in my disagreement and statement that this is blatantly false, and here is why:After Skype for Business Online retires on July 31, 2021, the service will no longer be accessible. The bigger issue I have is with the claim that Skype for Business Online feature and functionality are now all in Teams. Technically, I could be convinced this is mostly true. The actual title of the article, I don’t have as big a disagreement with. Facebook Twitter YouTube Blogs No emergency calls with Skype Skype is not a replacement for your telephone and cant be used for emergency calling Was this article helpful Yes No How can we improve it Important: Dont include personal or identifying info.There are a few key points I disagree with.In Skype for Business, I have multiple groups of contacts. To make matter worse I can’t add them or move them around in groups. I have random contact showing up here and there, but 95% of them are missing. If Teams is feature complete and a replacement for Skype for Business, my contacts should be in Microsoft Teams. My Skype for Business contact list IS NOT in Microsoft Teams.If you looked at the twitter thread in point 2, the also brings me to point 3. See this thread on Twitter where others have similar experiences and how some people have had them show up, only to disappear again multiple times. The ONLY place I can add contacts is in Favorites, and no offense, you are not all my favorite □ Until I can add, sort, group and actually SEE contacts in Microsoft Teams, I can’t get rid of Skype for Business.
Skype For Business Replacement How To Approach ItDepending on semantics you could spin this to say that chatting with federated users is in Teams, therefore the feature of being able to chat with the feature to federated users that is in Skype for Business is complete. This functionality is coming, but it isn’t there yet. Until I can chat with ALL of my federated contacts, in my mind, bringing the feature parity just isn’t there. Microsoft Teams supports federation ONLY if you have an Office 365 presence. Skype for Business Online allows you to chat with federated Skype for Business tenant both Online AND On-Premises. If you want to share a screen, you have to jump on a voice/video call. It’s not even one that’s partially implemented where I can do it with co-workers but not with federated tenants. This feature is completely missing from the Teams Client. We can continue our text-based instant messages while sharing a screen. In Skype for Business today, I can share my screen without initiating a video call. Sharing my screen WITHOUT initiating a phone call. The same thing for me, I’ll send a message from Teams and it will go to their Skype for Business Client. Federated clients send me messages from their instance of Microsoft Teams and it still comes to my Skype for Business client instead of Teams. This may be due to the fact that I have Microsoft Teams and Skype for Business installed. Add the emulator enachancer to macI’m also looking forward to the day where Microsoft Teams truly is feature complete and I can completely uninstall Skype for Business. When this was announced a year ago, I frankly didn’t believe they would have made it this far in their progress of merging the two platforms in the course of 12 months. This isn’t really a lack of getting features into Teams, but before I uninstall Skype for Business I would love to be able to verify and see that ALL the IMs are now going to my Teams client.You do have to give Microsoft some creditWhile I will blatantly disagree with their claim to have feature completeness of Skype for Business features in Microsoft Teams, I will give them some credit for getting as far as they have. But the whole routing of messages is still weird. Maybe it was lost in their Teams client, maybe they were in Skype for Business and didn’t see it in teams. Wait until the roadmap is actually 100% completely and not 99.5% complete. But, for my sake as well as the sake of all my clients I need to explain this to, PLEASE, don’t make announcements like this when there are actually features still missing and not working. So, Microsoft, keep up the good work on Teams, I’m looking forward to the day where I can get rid of my Skype for Business client. Voice calls, video calls and even screen sharing seem to work really well with a lot less lag than Skype for Business.
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