

When I try to call a phone number directly, I have no options at all. When I search for a user in my organization, the only option is to call them via Skype, whether or not they have a phone number in their contact information. Everything seems to indicate the external calling should "just work" like it "just worked" originally. I can't find anyone saying that I need to enable a setting or buy a feature. Here we are a year or two later and I need to place a call to physical phones via Skype for Business, but that functionality does not appear to be there. I was able to place some external calls using Skype for Business - I believe I called Office 365 Support about an issue I was having (if you're curious, O365 Exchange bit the dust the same weekend I was migrating email accounts and wasted several hours of my time). The Microsoft Xbox LIVE online game service, or the Microsoft Outlook.Over a year ago when I migrated my company to Office 365, I tested Skype for Business as that was a neat feature Microsoft threw into the plan we chose. If you use an email address and password to access services such as Microsoft OneDrive, Instructions for adding a consumer Skype user to your Skype for Business contact list can be found at. Skype for Business and consumer Skype users will be able to communicate using instant messaging, see each other's Users to add Skype contacts using their Contacts.Ĭonsumer Skype users can also add Skype for Business users This connectivity lets Skype for Business Microsoft Skype for Business supports connectivity with the consumer version of Skype (). This allows you to communicate with Skype users while using Microsoft Skype for Business and vice-versa. Consumer Skype accounts can be added to the contact list in Skype for Business.
