Microsoft Office 365 merging Skype ID and Lync

Tuesday 26 February 2013

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We found this article about Microsoft Office incorporating your Skype User Account with Lync. This is something that our clients have been asking about for a while now so we thought we'd pass on the information. Sourced from (http://immencloud.wordpress.com/2013/01/26/office-365-and-skype-federation/)

 

Since the moment that Microsoft took over Skype rumors started to reach the world about Office 365 (Lync Online) and Skype federation.

But how does it work? Do we enter our Skype name in our Lync client? That would have been easy, but no it takes some extra steps. I’ll provide a step by step post on how this federation works.
To make it really easy: Lync Online cannot federate with Skype unless your Skype User is connected to a Live ID. So we need live id connection to have a Skype federation, which makes sense of course. This is important to understand because if your users do not have this connection available, the federation will not work …
Step 1: Surf to https://secure.skype.com and login in with your live id
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Step 2: if you have Skype account (which is the case I this scenario) select I have a Skype account.
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Step 3: enter your Skype name and password
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Step 4: Merge your accounts
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Step 5: try and smile
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I’ve entered my live id account in Lync and try to connect with a voice call and you see in the printscreen that Skype takes the call.
What works and what doesn’t?
In my test only voice worked. IM, Video, Sharing desktop, didn’t work but may work very soon.

 

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