01-04-2018 10:48 AM
I was under the impression it would be possible to receive / send messages to Skype users via Teams chat functionality. After logging into my personal email account and attempting to message my Office365 address, no notification / message was received in Teams.
How do I go about configuring this to work?
01-04-2018 10:59 AM
01-04-2018 10:59 AM
01-04-2018 02:13 PM
I chat every day with users who are on Skype for Business while using the Teams client. It does work, with caveot: If they have logged into Teams before then you'll get their Teams account and not the Skype4Biz account
However, if you don't open Skype4Biz/Lync and they try to message you, it will show up in Teams and you can reply to them, which will give you two chats per user.
01-04-2018 02:17 PM
04-24-2018 01:08 PM
I just wanted to confirm. My team is using Teams, they leave skype closed. We show offline to skype users. If they message us thru skype for business, we should get it in Teams correct? We seem to be having an issue with skype for business users messaging us when we are signed out of skype but we have Teams open.
What is the answer for this?
Jenn
04-24-2018 01:24 PM
04-24-2018 01:26 PM
Our Skype in online.
I would much appreciate a confirmation so that I ensure my team is not missing anything.
04-24-2018 01:41 PM - edited 04-24-2018 01:43 PM
So the online presence is working as intended since the Interop for presence hasn't gone live yet. Soon Teams users should show as online from Skype for Business. Did you ever try messaging from Skype to Teams users that show offline? if you can't it's cause someone changed your chat defaults for the tenant to Teams, and this causes the "skype chat" option in Settings to be disabled by default. If this is the case this can be changed back to default to allow users to change this option if they want to be able to be chatted with from Skype for business.
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/powershell/module/skype/get-csteamsinteroppolicy?view=skype-ps
Anyway, it should work both ways, but that policy can block it in some ways. The presence as stated isn't live yet, but soon it should work so people can use S4B and see if Teams users are online and send them messages regardless of if they are on S4B or not.
So try to see if you can message and receive in Teams, if you can't then you might have to look at the chat policies. But the presence will be launching soon.
09-18-2018 04:16 AM
Hi,
Did you find any solution for this regarding sending IM to users whos been logged onto Teams but not using Teams and SfB client instead?
09-18-2018 12:44 PM
09-29-2018 04:18 AM
Any updates here. Thanks
09-30-2018 07:49 AM
Teams and Skype for Business interop should now by fully working for everyone, but it relies on the use of the upgrade modes. Read here about how to set them
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoftteams/setting-your-coexistence-and-upgrade-settings
The mode set for the recipient defines where their messages go so ...
Teams Only -> All messages from Skype go to Teams
Skype Only -> All messages from Teams go to Skype
Islands -> Teams messages go to Teams, Skype messages to Skype
Legacy -> Like Islands unless a users has never used Teams in which case like Skype only
It should also be considered that all messages from people outside your business are considered Skype messages at the moment, that's how the federation works, so even if the sender is in teams it will follow the route of a Skype message, and end up in Skype unless you are in Team Only mode.
09-30-2018 08:03 AM
10-10-2018 10:20 AM
It seems to me after reading that link and this one, that there does not seem to be a way to facilitate an environment where you have some users in Teams and some users in SfB only where message can be sent from SfB only users to the users in Teams and vice versa. Would that be a correct assessment?
Basically need an Islands setup where the Islands can communicate, but that doesn't seem possible.
10-10-2018 11:35 PM
10-10-2018 11:43 PM
@Deleted Have some users in Teams Only, the others in Skype Only, then each can communicate with each other or people in other companies via the interop service.
The defining feature of islands is that each clients messages stay on the island.
11-13-2018 01:06 PM - edited 11-13-2018 01:07 PM
I was on the Teams Tuesday call this afternoon and someone mentioned their take on having Teams users message their Skype counterparts. More specifically, these are Skype users that don't have access to Teams yet but If they message me, it would come through on Teams. I'm assuming in this instance, that if I respond, they would receive it through Skype on their end. I reached out to my Organization admin and they sent over a few picture of their current setup.
Based on our current setting of Islands, it does not look like what was discussed during today's meet-up is not possible in our org because of the coexistence setting. If they did change it to Teams Only, all SFB messages would be sent to Teams. The obvious downside is that some users are have been provisioned Teams but they are not using it as a daily driver; they're still using SFB.
The downside to all of this is that it significantly slows down the rate of acceptance of Teams. I'm trying to onboard some of my team members for testing but they are still not willing to make the jump over to Teams for a Driver for testing purposes.
Any suggestions/comments would be appreciated.
02-12-2019 07:38 AM
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