From Skype to Teams, but keep compatibility

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Last year we migrated to Skype for Business Cloud Connector Edition (CCE). The reason we didn't migrate to Teams was, that our most important customers use Skype for Business and we wanted to use a common toolset in the company. Back then, we could not use Teams to connect to Skype Meetings and Skype users could not join Team meetings.

Has this changed at all? We'd like to transition to Teams, but only if we can collaborate with S4B users, without us having to use a S4B client or our customers having to use a Teams client to connect to Teams meetings.

stevenc365 · Answer

DanielNiccoli&nbsp;but your customers do not need to install the Teams client to join your meetings, they only need Chrome or Edge to get a fully features meeting experience. If you switch to Teams you don't lose the ability for the Skype client to open when you join a meeting that they organize.&nbsp;

paul lange · Answer

Hi,this has not changed and probably will never change.SfB client for SfB meetings and Teams client for Teams meetings.

danielniccoli · Answer

Oh, that's actually a road-block for us. We won't migrate to Teams if that means that we still have to use Skype for our customers.

skynikodell · Answer

DanielNiccoli&nbsp;Maybe you could start with Teams and SfB Islands mode? That way, you can start to use Teams internally while still having SfB for external communication - and being ready for Teams Only once SfB online is shut down?&nbsp;As you know SfB (online) will be shut down in 2021 anyway, so even your customers have to migrate to Teams sooner or later, at least if they aren't of SfB on-prem.&nbsp;

paul lange · Answer

You can never dictate which platform the other side uses. This should not influence the decision for your platform. If you are Teams only and leave SfB client on the PC it is running in the background and will be only be used in SFB Interop and SfB Meeting scenarios.

Use Teams for meetings and everybody will love them and say "please schedule a Teams meeting so we don't have to use Webex, SfB, ..." 🙂

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From Skype to Teams, but keep compatibility

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