Skype for Business on Mac - December Update available today!

Paul Cannon - Thanks for taking the time to read some of these questions and reply back to them.

I was thinking about your response to gary woods, as our company is having similar concerns with the Skype for Business for Mac client.

We have both Macs and PCs in our company and, up until recently, mainly used Skype for internal and external communications.
Recently, Microsoft really trimmed back the ability to centrally manage Skype accounts, which is understandable as they are steering companies towards Skype for Business.

The Windows users can get by with most of the features in the Skype for Business client - it's not a difficult sell as it adds nice address book features, meeting scheduling, and they can still talk with clients that use Skype.

But the Mac users cannot do their work without some of these features.

And we can't roll out Skype for Business (Mac or Windows) unless we get feature parity (or as close as possible) for the entire company.
And since it's more difficult to use normal Skype in a business environment, we get departments trying other tools, notably Slack, putting a lot of pressure on us as an IT group.

So we're kind of in the position where Microsoft took away the ability to manage Skype and left us without a viable alternative.

Microsoft Teams is great, but just kind of adds to the confusion at this point, as there is a lot of overlap in features.

Not trying to complain...I know you guys are working hard and can only do so much with the resources you are given, but hitting some of the low-hanging fruit in the Mac client would go a long way towards keeping a lot of customers. I have voted on the UserVoice forums for features and will continue to do so, so hopefully that will help.

-Russ