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Аллдар Бухаев's avatar
Аллдар Бухаев
Copper Contributor
Oct 11, 2019

On-premise user unable to chat with TeamsOnly user.

Our organization purchased only 100 o365 licenses, which is less than 500. So all online users automatically become TeamsOnly. I can't change TeamsOnly mode due to this microsoft policy https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/help/4465277/microsoft-teams-now-the-primary-client-for-meetings-and-calling.

Now, thanks to federation, on-premise SFB users may communicate with other tenants' Teams users. However, can't communicate with people who are in the same organization but online. And that is kinda stupid. 

I hope that people will notice that o365 is much more convenient and purchase more o365 seats. One of the most amazing cloud features is Teams, it gives excellent collaboration experience. However, if online users can’t communicate with on-premise users, they won’t use Teams at all. Is there any possibility to let Teams users communicate with on-premise SFB users?

    • bhan-Techie's avatar
      bhan-Techie
      Copper Contributor
      HI team,
      we are also facing the same issue on skype for business hybrid setup
      > we are able to migrate users from onpermise to office365 skype for business.
      >onpremise users are able to communicate with onpremise and teams to teams
      > onpremise users not able to communicate with teams and vice versa.
      can anyone please help.
    • Аллдар Бухаев's avatar
      Аллдар Бухаев
      Copper Contributor

      paul-lange 

      Thanks for response, I already configured the hybrid setup. And moved users online.

      Now in my hybrid environment, there are online users and on-premise users, who can't communicate with each other. Online users are TeamsOnly (I described above), they may communicate only with online users. On-premise users may communicate only with on-premise users.

      • ChrisWebbTech's avatar
        ChrisWebbTech
        MVP
        you need to contact support to get your tenant switched over to still allow the other modes so you can transition since you are not a new tenant and coming on as hybrid you should still be able to configure the other modes.

        However. Once you introduce. Teams and hybrid I’m pretty sure that all your Onprem users require a Skype online license so that the gateway that handles the interop back to onprem will function properly.

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