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Launching Skype for Business Gives Prompt "Your Organization is now using Microsoft Teams"
We've just begun using O365 as we'd been using Office 2016 & Skype for Business 2015. We've rolled out O365 to a dozen or so people in the office and have not migrated over to using Teams. Although Teams is installed. My Skype has been working fine until today when working from home when I open Skype and get a prompt that tells me 'Your Organization is now using Microsoft Teams'. Funny thing is I'm the admin and have not migrated us to Teams. Everyone else is working in Skype fine but me.
Skype first opens, while signing in, and I can get to the condensed settings menu very briefly before this 'Teams' message appears.
Is there a registry setting to force my Skype to actually work as Skype and NOT forcibly redirect me to Teams? I have not resorted to uninstalling Teams at this point. Nor have I done a repair install of O365/Skype for Business.
Is there a work around for this to get me back into Skype so I can communicate with the rest of my company?
The only thing I've been able to find that comes anywhere close to addressing this issue is this. But I can't seem to locate a similar menu for settings anywhere. https://masteringlync.com/2017/10/16/skype-for-business-microsoft-teams/
Hi Paul, I did open a ticket with Microsoft to request the rollback. After providing a 'business case' for rolling back they did just now complete the request, thankfully. So I am now officially on my Island.
Took 7 days but it is done.
Thanks for the input Paul!
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- Hi,
you should go to the teams admin center and check the upgrade mode for your user. I would expect it is set to TeamsOnly. Change it as you like (SfBOnly, Islands)
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoftteams/upgrade-and-coexistence-of-skypeforbusiness-and-teams
Regards,
PaulHi Paul, You are correct. Coexistence Mode = Teams Only under Teams Upgrade. Unfortunately it also says "These settings for your organization have been set by Microsoft and can't be changed.".
The 'Learn More' link to me to the page you linked too as well.
Did a search and came up with https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoftteams/setting-your-coexistence-and-upgrade-settings that walks you through the options. Unfortunately on this page under Org-wide Settings/ Coexistence Mode it also says "These settings for your organization have been set by Microsoft and can't be changed".
Is there a way around this to edit the setting elsewhere in the O365 Admin portal?
I did find this as well...
https://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/msoffice/forum/all/teams-co-existence-blocked-by-microsoft/440355a5-8faa-404d-a60e-8dc8d18f0e7f
"Once the updating is completed, we are unable to retrieve to Skype for Business."
