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Teams IM to Skype for Business
Maruthi Gadde This sounds like a lot of administration to perform.
It sounds like if I want to slowly roll our users to Teams I must Manually touch each of our accounts two times. Once so that migrated Teams Clients can continue IM'ing with SFB and again after they are put onto Teams to put them in Teams mode. We have almost 4000 accounts.
It would appear our Clients will need to Keep both applications open during a transition period.
David Kamp Have you considered changing your org-wide setting to Skype for Business? That way, you only need to touch each account once to move it to Teams Only mode. If you do this, users wouldn't have to keep both applications open (indeed, they would only be able to sign in to Skype for Business or Teams, depending on whether they were in SfB or Teams mode). If you have any users who specifically need to be able to be signed in to both applications at once, you could put them into Islands mode individually.
- Some good advice right there
If I put the Org-Wide setting to SFb then an IM from Teams to Sfb would work?
and an IM from Sfb to Teams would also work.
Assuming the End user only logs into their client of choice (which hopefully would be Teams).
And after getting everyone On Teams make the Org-wide setting Teams Only mode.
Does this sound like it would work or am I missing a potential step?
- No, you can't give users the choice, that's what islands is for, but your users have to use both clients, they can't use one or the other. There is no way for them to just decide one day to use teams and send it to the client of choice, they don't move with what the user is using.
You have to make the choice one way or the other, or they can use both at same time, but they have to run both at the same time as skype chats go skype, and teams to teams.
You can't achieve what you are wanting per your last response.
