

Your departmental IT staff can assist during this transition and are prepared to answer your questions.įrequently Asked Questions and a summary of how to use "Skype functions" in Teams can be found at. Please begin transitioning your work from Skype to Teams. Link other resources to your conversations such as Word documents, Excel sheets or PowerPoints, all in one Teams application. Store Team-based shared files, similar to Box and Google Drive. Launch audio and/or video meetings, similar to Zoom. Start individual text chats or group conversations, similar to Skype for Business. If Teams is not in your applications, you can download it directly from. If you downloaded the Microsoft suite recently, Teams is already installed on your computer. To use it on the web, click on the Teams tile in Office 365 ( ) or go directly to. You can begin using Microsoft Teams immediately you do not need to be a member of a Team to use the chat feature, calendar, or audio/video meetings. MS Teams has been built by Microsoft to replace Skype for Business. Microsoft Teams is an Office 365 application that includes chat (IM) and many additional features available NOW to campus users. We are requesting all members of the campus community who currently use Skype to transition off this application by January 31, 2021. There are new tools and capabilities provided by Microsoft that can be used as a replacement for Skype, one of which is Microsoft Teams. Microsoft has slowly been phasing out Skype for Business and has plans to discontinue it in 2021.
