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Office 365 Business Essentials and Skype for Business
Hi, We have an 8 user Office 365 Business Essentials subscription, as you can see from the snipping grab below the list of services that Skype is one of them. After reading a coup...
- Hi!
Is this a new tenant, as in created after October 2018? If so, it would not come with Skype for Business (unless over 500 users) as Microsoft Teams is now the default chat, meeting and calling application. Tenants created before that time still have it but it’s being retired in July 2021 and Microsoft is busy moving all tenants sub 500 to Teams. As far as I can remember there is a backdoor workaround to light it up but would not recommend this.
So I would download the Teams client
https://teams.microsoft.com/downloads
and use that. Teams is so much more than Skype for Business and will have real value to your users.
Hope that answers your question
Best, Chris
Hi!
Is this a new tenant, as in created after October 2018? If so, it would not come with Skype for Business (unless over 500 users) as Microsoft Teams is now the default chat, meeting and calling application. Tenants created before that time still have it but it’s being retired in July 2021 and Microsoft is busy moving all tenants sub 500 to Teams. As far as I can remember there is a backdoor workaround to light it up but would not recommend this.
So I would download the Teams client
https://teams.microsoft.com/downloads
and use that. Teams is so much more than Skype for Business and will have real value to your users.
Hope that answers your question
Best, Chris
Is this a new tenant, as in created after October 2018? If so, it would not come with Skype for Business (unless over 500 users) as Microsoft Teams is now the default chat, meeting and calling application. Tenants created before that time still have it but it’s being retired in July 2021 and Microsoft is busy moving all tenants sub 500 to Teams. As far as I can remember there is a backdoor workaround to light it up but would not recommend this.
So I would download the Teams client
https://teams.microsoft.com/downloads
and use that. Teams is so much more than Skype for Business and will have real value to your users.
Hope that answers your question
Best, Chris
Hi Chris.
Thanks for the speedy reply.
Yes the subscription is post Oct 2018, so that explains it. I did see that SfB was being deprecated in favour of teams but not that it had been dropped for new subscribers. It is slightly misleading that the Icon for SfB is still shown on the 365 subscription panel.
I will look into using Teams in that case.
Thanks again.
Andy