Skype for Business, now part of Microsoft Teams is a great collaboration tool!
Rating: 10 out of 10
June 13, 2024
AL
Vetted Review
Verified User
5 years of experience
- Planned and impromptu virtual meetings that require sharing of "visual" information with other team members. Check in and project meetings using Skype for Business, now part of Microsoft Teams are easy to schedule and execute.
- Interactive collaboration and communication with remote team members. When you need to interact collaboratively with one or more person, Skype for Business, now part of Microsoft Teams is arguably just as good as meeting in person...whether you use Video and Audio or just Audio. Also integrated chat which can be both active and passive works great. Modern communication for the modern world.
- Integration with Microsoft 365 documentation related tools. It is easy to organize, manage, and share documents from the Microsoft suite of tools such as PPTs, XLSs, DOCs, etc.
- Integration with Outlook (which is technically part of MS 365) is excellent. Email is not dead just yet so having a tool like Microsoft Teams that makes email even more useful and productive is great. Scheduling and managing meetings and activities and email threads are easy with Skype for Business, now part of Microsoft Teams.
Cons
- There is something about Skype for Business, now part of Microsoft Teams' overall layout that seems kind of clunky/old school...like it could use a UI makeover
- This might be a non-issue moving forward, but the integration process from Legacy to Go Forward applications was a bit painful and disjointed. Normally, there is one go forward tool and you migrate to it from the legacy tool and then that go forward tool just releases new updates vs going from Skype for Business to Teams (Classic) to Teams (New).
- The control bars sometimes seem to have issues. For example, the share control bar/button seems to get in the way of the browser tabs when sharing so you have to minimize or resize the whole browser page and move it away from the Share button to be able to get to the browser tab that the Share button covers. And then the small floating control bar to see who is talking and houses the quick access mute control button sometimes disappears (or gets buried) from the top shared screen and is hard to get back to easily get on and off mute.