Consumer Skype users can also add Skype for Business users to their contacts list. Right-click on a name, select “Change Privacy Relationship” and then choose the new relationship. This connectivity lets Skype for Business users to add Skype contacts using their Contacts. New contacts are, by default, allocated to the “Colleagues” group – but you can change this by clicking on the “Relationships” tab in the contact list. Contacts with the status “Blocked” can still see your name and email address, but can’t call you. The least privileged are “External contacts,” who can only see information such as your display name, email address and your presence status (online, away, etc).
More broadly, “Colleagues” can also see where you work, whether you’re free or busy, and details of any meeting you’re in. For example, only contacts tagged “Friends and Family” can see your home phone number, while your work and mobile numbers are also visible to those in the “Workgroup” category. In Skype for Business, it’s more about controlling who can see your phone numbers and whether you’re online. Skype for Business allows you to show different levels of information to people with whom you have different relationships – a concept familiar to anyone who has created friend lists in Facebook to hide their activities from their parents (or children.). When they click on the link, they can choose to join a browser-based version of the meeting. Start by clicking on the “More options” button at the bottom right (the circle containing three dots) and select “Meeting entry info.” This will bring up a dialog allowing you to copy a link to a web version of the meeting that you can send via email, IM or whatever you normally use.
(There’s just one person on the button on the Mac.) This will bring up a dialog in which you can click on the name of a contact, or start typing the name or phone number of someone in your contacts book.īut there’s another way if you want to invite someone who isn’t part of your organization, or doesn’t have Skype for Business installed.
To do that, click either the large “Invite More People” button under the list of participants, or the round button in the top right corner containing symbols for two people and a plus sign. Your Contact List Groups are shown under the Groups tab. (On a Mac you’ll find it under the Conversations menu.) Now that you’ve started a conversation, you can invite people to join it. To create a new Contact Group to organise contacts Open Skype for Business. To add a Skype contact, switch from My Contacts to. As you type, search results may start appearing below the search box, and the tabs will change from Groups, Status, Relationships, and New, as shown in the following image. If you want a more impromptu gathering, then fire up Skype for Business and click on “Meet Now” at the top of the window. In the search box on the Contacts view of the Skype for Business main window, type a name, Microsoft account address.