Integrating Skype for Business with Outlook on the web
If you are using Outlook.com as your private e-mail provider, you've probably noticed that the consumer version of Skype is integrated in the mail functionality nowadays. A similar functionality can also be achieved with Exchange 2016 and Skype for Business 2015 instead of the consumer version of Skype we use Skype for Business.
A scenario when this is ideal would be if there are users that might not have the rich Skype for Business client installed or available for some reason; they can then simply go to the webmail and utilize the instant messaging functionality there.
In this recipe, we will take a look at how this can be configured and validated.
How to do it...
- To be able to integrate, the Unified Communications Managed API 4.0 Runtime needs to be installed on the Exchange server(s). We can validate that this has been installed by running the cmdlet:
Get-ItemProperty "HKLM:\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\MSExchange ` OWA\InstantMessaging...