Even when people sent you messages from Skype for Business they will appear in Teams chat for you. How do I Chat/Instant Message within my organisation?Īll Chat will now be under “chat” in Teams. Here are the questions a user may have and the answers. Teams is now the single and primary UC and collab client for that user. The downside is they have two options for meetings and chat. The upside of Islands is nothing changes in SfB so the user can discover Teams in their own time. What they don’t get is Federation or Phone in Microsoft Teams, or the ability to chat from Microsoft Teams to a Skype for Business Only user in the same organisation (their Teams lives on the Teams Island and only talks to other Teams users)

In addition, they get Microsoft Teams with Chat, Teams (collaboration), Online Meetings (currently without PSTN dial-in/out, but in the future, this will be an option) and VoIP calling to other Teams users. Everything they had before in Skype for Business works exactly the same as it did before.

Their Teams client can only communicate with other Teams clients/users within the organisation.

There is a lot of debate on the pros and cons of Islands mode vs gradual staged feature by feature migration (that’s another blog still in draft), but if a user is a full SfB User (Instant Messaging, Conferencing and PSTN Phone), what’s the experience in Islands and what’s the experience when they move to Teams Only? Microsoft Teams Islands mode alongside Skype for Business – User ExperienceĪs the name suggests, Islands mode means, to that user, Microsoft Teams is an Island completely independent and separate from Skype for Business. Many customers with Skype for Business are starting with Microsoft Teams in Islands Mode.

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