Available for both Microsoft Office 365 (Skype for Business Online) cloud and Skype for Business on-premises. 3 ways to video-enable Skype for Business.
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I'm in the middle of a migration to O365 and really want to be able to switch to using Skype Online. It will be nice to utilize the Skype for business mobile app and stuff, but we can't really switch until we have an answer for persistent chat. So far I haven't found anything except that Microsoft's solution was supposed to be Yammer, but I don't see it working the same and I really don't want users to have to use two seperate programs to get the same functionality as Lync server.
I would really like to keep an eye on this thread to see if anyone else has found a solution or has found any more recent info from Microsoft about it. Maybe Chris (Microsoft) knows something about it? Persistent chat would require you to have an on premise Lync server deployment as it requires a place to store the chats over time. What Microsoft does offer and I would encourage you to explore as part of your subscription is Yammer and that is where you will gain this functionality out of the box.
Super easy to setup in my experience and gives you all Persistent Chat does and more. You might also consider SharePoint as another point to plug in Yammer to keep the chat focused as more of a discussion. Then as a basic option / workaround you might just use SharePoint discussion boards Microsoft also has a UserVoice request board so you can post this request if you cannot find it already and everyone that wants it can vote it up and the engineering team will take note of the big ones and they do make those priority. Report back if you need more so we can hash this out.
Hi All I have been playing around with MFA today in a lab and working on getting MFA working for my on premises users. I have SFB setup in hybrid mode (split domain), i.e both O365 and SFB On premises are looking after by domain. On December 6 th 2017 we announced that we support MFA for SFB On premises users (with EXO mailboxes) which is pretty cool.
Blog post here So I figured I had better give it a go. Fortunately we have a pretty comprehensive guide out on how to turn it on, just here So I followed the key steps and voila worked a treat. Some thoughts to be aware of:. Once you turn on SFB MFA auth in on premises, all users will start to be authenticated against O365, not just those you enable for MFA in O365. I.e I enabled a user victor for MFA and he started working beautifully.
I then tried to sign in as Anna, another onprem user who wasn't enabled for MFA in O365. When signing in, I am now prompted to auth against Office 365 from the SFB client. Once having signed in with a password, you will of course be prompted for a 2 nd factor, in my case using a One time code from O365 text'd to my mobile phone. After putting in the code (see prompt in SFB client below), voila I was in. You need to turn on per user MFA in Office 365, and the user then needs to setup how they would like to use MFA when signing into O365 apps including SFB.
Once those two steps are done, the SFB client will start using O365 MFA. Make sure you check out the pre-reqs as this is designed for SFB Hybrid and Exchange Online scenarios, and will not work with all customer scenarios (so please be careful here and read up on all the supported scenarios). There is a great video on SFB Modern Auth from Ignite 2017, go here to have a look;. It's also worth reading the Planning for MFA in Office 365 before tackling this approach; Anyway, it is exciting we now have this as it will help a lot of my customers who want SFB MFA but still have users on premises. So exciting stuff. Happy Skype'ing/Team'ing Steve PS.
Don't forget lab this stuff up before you go and do in production, test test and test.