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Summary: Skype for Business Server 2015 or Skype for Business Online administrators can use these tables to understand what features are supported on which clients.

Before you deploy or upgrade to Skype for Business, check which clients are already in use in your organization. Use the tables below to understand the feature support impact on those clients. This can help you communicate changes to users, pace the roll-out process, and fully understand the benefits of upgrading to the latest client.

Some features available with Skype for Business Server 2015 are not available in Skype for Business Online, see Online or Hybrid user account limitations for specifics. Skype for Business Online Admins may want to refer to Skype for Business Online Service Description for information on the different plans available to them.

See Desktop client feature comparison for Skype for Business 2019 for client support on Skype for Business Server 2019.

The following tables show the features that are available with each client that works with Skype for Business Server 2015 or Skype for Business Online. You may also want to refer to Mobile client feature comparison for Skype for Business for smart phone and tablet client feature comparisons. The Client Access License or User Subscription License your organization purchases will also have an impact on which features are available to your users. Whether you deploy the Full or Basic client to users depends on the license or plan your organization chooses to buy. See the Licensing Guide for more details.

Important

Skype for Business Server 2015 and Skype for Business Online support the following previously released clients: Lync 2013, Lync 2010, Lync 2010 Mobile, Lync Phone Edition, and Lync 2010 Attendant. For information about these clients when used with other servers, see the Client comparison tables for Lync Server 2013 and Client comparison tables for Lync Server 2010.

Note

The Lync 2010 Attendant client is not supported in Skype for Business Online.

Note

The Skype for Business Web App browser client and Skype Meetings App Windows 10 app only provide Meetings support. Refer to Plan for Meetings clients (Web App and Meetings App) for more about these clients.

Enhanced Presence support

This table covers the Enhanced Presence features that extend beyond a simple indication of whether a user is online, offline, busy, etc.

❶ Does not support publishing status based on calendar free/busy information.

Contacts and Contact Groups support

This table covers the features relating to managing IM and Presence contacts.

IM support

This table covers features related to IM support.

Meetings support

This table covers features related to Meetings support.

Note

Skype for Business meeting features aren't available in Skype for Business Online Standalone Plan 1. Plan 1 is being retired.

In Skype-to-Skype sessions, a Skype for Business Online Plan 1 user can participate in desktop sharing and application sharing if they're invited by a user who has access to sharing features.For details, see the Skype for Business Online Service Description.

❶ Participants can't control desktops that are shared by Skype for Business on Mac, Lync for Mac 2011, or Communicator for Mac 2011 users. Skype for Business on Mac, Lync for Mac 2011 and Communicator for Mac 2011 users can't control desktops shared by Windows users. This also won't work for Skype for Business Web App on Max OSX.

❷ For Skype for Business Online, this feature requires Microsoft PSTN Conferencing, Exchange Unified Messaging, or a 3rd party audio conferencing provider.

❸ The Lync for Mac 2011 client cannot view Microsoft Office 2013 PowerPoint presentations when they have been shared in a conference by the Skype for Business Web App.

Voice (Telephony) support

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Note

Skype for Business Voice (Telephony) features are limited to certain Skype for Business Online subscription plans. For details, see the Skype for Business Online Service Description.

❶ This feature isn't available in Skype for Business Online.

External users support

This table covers features related to support for external users homed on the PSTN.

Recording support

This table covers features related to support for recording meetings.

❶ Recording is unavailable in certain Skype for Business Online standalone plans. Recording requires full Skype for Business client rights.

❷ Recording of file transfers, shared OneNote pages, and PowerPoint annotations is unavailable in Skype for Business Online.

Modern Authentication

This table covers features requiring support for modern authentication.

Modern authentication also requires a topology described in Skype for Business topologies supported with Modern Authentication.

Archiving, compliance, and logging support

This table covers features related to support for archiving and logging functions.

❶ For Skype for Business Online users, this feature requires Exchange Online and is controlled by the user's Exchange mailbox In-Place Hold attribute.

Client limitations

Basic client limitations

The features below are available using the Full client and are not available with the Basic client:

• Manage team call settings
• Manage delegates
• Handle another's calls if configured as a delegate
• Manage a high volume of calls
• Initiate a call to a Response Group
• Call park
• Change greeting
• Group call pickup
• Missed call notification emails are not generated when a user status is UM disabled and they are using a legacy Outlook Client (2013 or earlier)

Online or Hybrid user account limitations

User accounts can exist either Online or On-premises, and that will affect the features available to that user. Users with accounts on Skype for Business Online will not have access to the following features, even with the Full client:

• Enhanced Presence: Use a photo from any public site for My Picture
• Contacts: Search for Response Groups
• IM Support: Persistent Chat (Group Chat) integration
• IM Support: Escalate a Persistent Chat room to a Skype for Business Meeting with one click
• External Users: Conduct two-party or multiparty calls with external users

See also

Coexistence and interoperability between Skype for Business and Teams clients and users is defined by TeamsUpgrade modes, described in Migration and interoperability guidance for organizations using Teams together with Skype for Business.

Any given user will always be assigned a TeamsUpgrade mode, either by default or explicitly by the administrator. The default value is Islands. Users upgraded to Teams have the mode of TeamsOnly. SfBOnly, SfBWithTeamsCollab, and SfBWithTeamsCollabAndMeetings are also possible modes.

Routing parameters

The TeamsUpgrade mode of the recipient is key in determining the behavior of chats, calls, and presence, both within a tenant and across federated tenants.

If the sender is using Teams, the routing decision is made when creating a new conversation thread. Existing conversation threads in Teams always retain the routing method determined when the thread was created: Teams supports persistent threads.

Thread routing methods are:

• native for a Teams to Teams conversation in-tenant
• interop for a Teams to Skype for business conversation in-tenant
• federated for a federated conversation across tenants

The parameters that determine the thread routing method are:

• The TeamsUpgrade mode of the recipient
• The client used by the sender
• Whether the conversation is new, or part of an existing thread
• Whether the conversation is in-tenant or federated
• Whether the conversation is possible
  • In-tenant interoperability requires that the tenant is either pure online or Skype for Business hybrid. Purely on-premises tenants can't have in-tenant interoperability.
  • Cross-tenant federation always requires proper Skype for Business federation configuration as well as proper Teams federation configuration from both tenants. Skype for Business hybrid isn't required of either tenant.
  • If the Skype for Business account of the originator is homed on-premises, that user can't use the Teams client for in-tenant interoperability or for federation. That user can only use the Skype for Business client for interoperability and federation.
  • Teams to Teams communication is always possible in-tenant.

Note

If the receiver and sender are both in TeamsOnly upgrade mode, the conversation will be a native chat experience which includes all the rich messaging and calling capabilities. To learn more, read Native chat experience for external (federated) users in Teams. If either of the conversation participants is NOT in TeamsOnly upgrade mode, the conversation remains an interop experience with text-only messages.

Chat and call routing

In-tenant routing for new chats or calls

The tables below capture routing of in-tenant chat and calls, and are valid for new calls or chats that are not started from a pre-existing thread. Mac lipstick chart. It describes which client will receive a new call or chat, if originated by a user on the left, to an in-tenant recipient user on the right.

Messages sent to TeamsOnly users will always route to Teams. Messages sent to SfB* users will always route to Skype for Business, if the conversation is possible as described above. Messages sent to Islands users will always route to the same client from which they were sent.

The tables below show which client in a given mode will receive a call from the originator (three leftmost columns), depending on the originator's mode, client chosen, and where their Skype for Business client is homed (on-prem or online).

In the tables that follow:

• SfB* represents any of the following modes: SfBOnly, SfBWithTeamsCollab, SfBWithTeamsCollabAndMeetings.

• Italic text highlights an interop conversation.

• Not Possible represents a situation in which the chat or call is not possible. The originator must use Skype for Business instead in these cases. This is one of the reasons why Microsoft's prescriptive guidance to on-prem/hybrid customers is to use a mode other than Islands (typically SfBWithTeamsCollab) as the starting point of their upgrade journey to Teams.

Table 1a: in-tenant new chat or call routing to an islands mode recipient

Table 1b: in-tenant new chat or call routing to a recipient in an SfB* mode

Table 1c: in-tenant new chat or call routing to a TeamsOnly mode recipient

Federated routing for new chats or calls

The tables below capture routing of federated calls and chats, and are valid for new calls or chats. They describe which client will receive a new call or chat, if originated by a user on the left, to a federated target user on the right.

In summary, if the conversation is possible as described above, messages sent to TeamsOnly users will always land in Teams; messages sent to SfB* users will always land in Skype for Business; messages sent to Islands users will always land in Skype for Business regardless of the client from which they were sent. Routing for federated chats and calls differs from in-tenant routing in that Islands users will always receive a federated communication in Skype for Business.

This is because we cannot assume that a federated Skype for Business partner already uses Teams if they are in Islands mode. Islands is the default mode, however we can't assume all Islands users run Teams. By routing to Skype for Business we ensure that no communication to an Islands user fails. If we routed to Teams, that communication could be missed if the target did not use Teams. Routing to Skype for Business ensures the message will always be received.

Note

Current implementation of Teams federation is based upon Skype for Business federation, therefore it leverages the interoperability infrastructure (which requires the tenant of the originator to be either pure online or Skype for Business hybrid) and provides a reduced set of capabilities compared to a native thread. We expect to provide native Teams to Teams federation in the future, at which point the thread will be native and provide full capabilities.

The tables below describe which client will receive a call from the originator (three leftmost columns), depending on the originator's mode, client chosen, and where their Skype for Business client is homed (on-prem or online).

Table 2a: federated new chat or call routing to an Islands recipient

Table 2b: federated new chat or call routing to a recipient in an SfB* mode

Table 2c: federated new chat or call routing to a TeamsOnly mode recipient

Chats and calls from pre-existing threads

From Teams

Calls or chats started from a pre-existing persistent thread in Teams will be routed in the same manner as that thread, if that routing option is still available.

If the pre-existing persistent thread in Teams was a native thread (i.e. routed to Teams), additional chat messages and calls from that thread will go to Teams. If it was an interop thread (i.e. routed to Skype for Business), additional chat messages and calls will go to Skype for Business (again assuming routing options are available).

Note

It's possible for pre-existing threads in Teams to no longer be routable, such as when the thread was an interop thread to a user that is now upgraded to Teams. Since it was created as an interop thread, the thread would route to Skype for Business, but that user no longer can use Skype for Business for chat and calling. In that case, the thread will be disabled and not permit further communication.

From Skype for Business

Skype for Business threads do not persist beyond the 10 min. SIP session timeout. Chats and calls from an existing thread in Skype for Business prior to expiration of the SIP session will be routed in the same manner as the thread. Calls and chats from an existing thread in Skype for Business beyond the SIP session timeout will be routed to the remote party's Skype for Business, regardless of which client the original thread came from on the other party's side.

Availability

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Both the in-tenant and federated behaviors described above are available, with the following limitations:

• External attendees whose tenants reside in a different GoLocal deployment or geography won't see IM chat while in a 'federated' meeting
• Federation and interop between Multitenant O365 and Sovereign Clouds is not supported

Presence

When you have a situation where some of your users are using the Teams client and others are still using the Skype for Business client, you may have a number of users who are using both clients. You still want presence states to be shared with all users without regard to what client an individual user has. When this is shared across the organization, users can better determine whether it's appropriate to initiate a chat or make a call.

For example, if an originator's chat or call should land on the target's Skype for Business client, then it's the Skype for Business client's presence that should be shown to the originator. If it should land on the target's Teams client, then it's the Teams client's presence that should be shown.

In order to know what behavior to expect, you'll need to understand that Presence is shared based on a user's coexistence mode:

• If a user is in TeamsOnly mode, then any other user (whether in Teams or Skype for Business) will see that TeamsOnly user's Teams presence
• If a user is in any of the SfB* modes (SfbOnly, SfbWithTeamsCollab, SfbWithTeamsCollabAndMeetings), then any other user (whether in Teams or Skype for Business) will see that SfB* user's Skype for Business presence
• If a user is in Islands (or Legacy) mode, presence in Teams and presence in Skype for Business are independent (the values need not match) and other users will see one or the other presence of the Islands user, depending on whether they are in the same tenant or in a federated tenant and which client they use
  • From Teams, any other user within the same tenant will see the Islands user's Teams presence; this is aligned with the in-tenant routing table above
  • From Teams, any other user in a federated tenant will see the Islands user's Skype for Business presence; this is aligned with the federated routing table above
  • From Skype for Business, any other user will see the Islands user's Skype for Business presence (both in-tenant and federated); this is aligned with the routing tables above

In-tenant presence

Group Chat On Skype

Messages sent to TeamsOnly users will always land in Teams. Messages sent to SfB* users will always land in Skype for Business, if the conversation is possible as described above. Messages sent to Islands users will always land in the client from which they were originated.

The table describes the Publisher's presence that will be seen by a Watcher, depending on the mode of the Publisher and the client of the Watcher (for a new thread).

Table 3: in-tenant presence (new thread)

Federated presence

Federated presence is based upon the federated reachability shown in table 2.

The table below describes the Publisher's presence that will be seen by a Watcher, depending on the mode of the Publisher and the client of the Watcher (for a new thread). Dericam ip camera tool. In practice the client of the Watcher makes no difference in federation at this stage.

Table 4: federated presence (new thread)

Presence in pre-existing threads

In order to align presence and reachability in pre-existing threads, the target's presence exposed in that thread needs to be aligned with the routing of the thread, assuming routing is possible.

Skype Chat Web

In particular, if a recipient you previously had a persistent interop conversation thread with was upgraded to Teams, that thread will no longer reflect accurate presence and will no longer be routable. You should start a new thread.

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