Skype for Business meetings can be scheduled within Outlook, and launched instantly with one click. If I need an answer now, I can go into Skype for Business and see if anyone in engineering is involved in a meeting and ask the question if I don’t want to wait until the other person returns.” If I have a question for someone in engineering, I can see if they are out of the office. According to Stark, “Right next to their name in Outlook I see whether they are participating or are out of the office. Skype for Business can display each employee’s availability, such as if they’re free, busy, in a meeting or offline. This makes it easy to send an IM or start a voice or video call from directly within a Word or PowerPoint document, for example. You may be prompted to allow the web plug-in to load – if so, select the Always allow… checkbox then click Allow.Skype for Business is more deeply integrated with Outlook and Office 365, Microsoft’s cloud productivity suite, which includes the core Office apps like Word, PowerPoint and Excel, as well as email, cloud storage, and other collaboration tools.

At the welcome screen, enter your name and click Join.

After that has been installed, click Open Skype Meetings App when prompted.

Next, you will be prompted to download and install the SkypeMeetingsApp plug-in.

You will be asked how you want to join the meeting – click Install and join with Skype Meetings App (web).

When you receive the Skype for Business meeting invitation, click Try Skype Web App.

Here are the instructions for a guest (a PDF version is available too). However, they can also attend and participate using the full suite of meeting functions using their computer audio, share their video, see video from other participants, see shared documents, etc. They can call the conference number from any phone and enter the Conference ID to dial in with audio. Guests from outside the university can attend Skype for Business meetings too.

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