You can now speak to your colleagues with a personal skype account with Teams – and visa versa!

 

What you’ll need…

Your colleagues email address associated with their Skype account.

A Teams account.

 

How to do it

 

  1. Open Teams.
  2. At the top of the page there is a “Search” option. Enter the email address associated with your colleagues Skype account here.
  3. There will be a drop down list, and a option with to search for the email address “externally”. Select this option.

 

     4. There will be a list of any external Skype accounts associated with this email address. NOTE: there will be a small Skype icon next to the user.

 

 

    5. Select the skype user you’d like to chat to, and this will create a new chat window where you can start a conversation!