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Brass Contributor

Jan 19, 2017

Multiple chats sessions with same contact in S4B window ?

I see multiple instances of chats with the same contact. This is really cluttering up my Skype for Business app window in both my mobile iOS and my desktop app. Example: Chat session with Joe a...

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Phillip Garding

Former Employee

Sep 28, 2017

I apologize for the long delay in responding. I have good news, so perhaps you will forgive me. We are working on implementing a solution to this problem that would reuse the same chat window or panel for multiple conversations with the same person. This won't ship in the update next week, but If all goes well we hope to ship this in the 16.12 release.

Peter Okorn

Brass Contributor

Sep 30, 2017

Hi Phillip,

This is good news.

Can I ask, there is an article stating that S4B will be officially replaced with Teams. Can you confirm this? If so, can you ensure this particular problem is not reintroduced into Teams as well?

Best, Peter

Phillip Garding
Former Employee
Oct 02, 2017
The chat architecture in Teams is completely different, so split conversations won't be an issue there.
Cian Allner
Silver Contributor
Oct 01, 2017
Peter Okorn wrote:
Hi Phillip,

Can I ask, there is an article stating that S4B will be officially replaced with Teams. Can you confirm this?
The http://skypeandteams.fasttrack.microsoft.com/. Might be of interest but I have written an article with related details, though I am still working on it - https://social.technet.microsoft.com/wiki/contents/articles/40263.microsoft-teams-replacing-the-skype-for-business-client.aspx.