Lync Online helps your organization keep in touch. You can also let people add Lync or Skype users outside your organization to their list of Lync contacts. Go to Admin > Service Settings > Instant messaging, meetings and conferencing > External communications to turn this feature on or off.
Important
- You may have to wait for up to 24 hours before the setting takes effect.
- Connectivity with instant messaging providers other than Skype is not available.
Here’s the details:
- Lync users in other companies The other organization must also allow external contacts. Only features available to both you and the other Lync user are supported.
If you want to communicate with an organization that has Lync Server on premises, refer them to the TechNet article Configuring Federation Support for a Lync Online Customer.
- Skype users Signed in with their Microsoft account (formerly Windows Live ID)
Important Support for communication between Lync and Skype will be available by June.
| Available with Skype* users today |
Available with Skype* users by June 2013 |
Not available with Skype* users |
- Presence
- Person-to-person instant messaging
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- Person-to-person audio calls
- Find and add Lync contacts in Skype
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- Video conversations
- IM or audio conversations with three or more people
- Desktop and program sharing
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* Skype users signed in with their Microsoft account (formerly Windows Live ID).
