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This won’t be an issue for tenants that have always used Teams, but could be a problem for those still migrating from Skype for Business Online. To support federation, Teams users must be configured in TeamsOnly mode. To allow users to chat and call each you, you must go to the Org-wide settings access section of the Teams Admin Center, select External access, and then move the Users can communicate with Skype users slider to on (Figure 1).įigure 1: Enabling Teams-Skype connections in the Teams Admin CenterĪllow an hour or for Teams and Skype learn of their new ability to interact before trying to connect. Unlike many new features Microsoft introduces in Teams, Teams-Skype interoperability is disabled by default. Once Microsoft had rolled out native federated chat for Teams users in different Office 365 tenants, Skype was the natural next stop. Common Roots in the Media StackĪpart from building out the Skype for Business Online migration story, this update shouldn’t be a huge surprise because Teams and Skype consumer share many components like the media stack. Teams users can search for Skype users with their email address (not Skype ID or phone number) while Skype users need to know the user principal name of a Teams user.īeing able to communicate with Skype consumer users closes a gap in the Teams chat story that will help Skype for Business Online users move to Teams in advance of the Jdeadline for the shutdown of Skype for Business Online. When enabled, Teams and Skype users can have personal chats and VOIP calls with each other. Office 365 Notification MC205801 ( Microsoft 365 roadmap item 53935) published on Mabrings news that Teams is extending its federated chat capabilities to include Skype consumer users. The new target date for completion is the end of June.

Update May 19: Microsoft has run into some problems with the early implementation of the Skype consumer interoperability feature and has delayed the roll-out to make some code changes. Personal Chats and VOIP Calls Bridge the Divide Another Step for Skype for Business Online Users.