Skype was traditionally used on desktop PCs initially, and as mobile growth has accelerated it has had to adjust accordingly.
Most of the problems over the past year have stemmed from a transition from Skype’s peer-to-peer networks to Microsoft’s cloud-powered servers. In the coming months, Skype will also start syncing the favorite contact list across all devices. That fix isn't coming today, but in the coming months Microsoft is planning to address this, so "you’ll only receive notifications on the device you’re actively using." Alongside today's changes Microsoft has also and improved the performance of its apps as well as battery drain. The only part of the puzzle that’s missing now is a method to prevent notifications from triggering across multiple devices. Providing you have the latest Skype app installed, you’ll no longer have issues syncing messages across multiple devices, or random notifications for old chat threads. Notifications across multiple devices will be fixed in the coming months They’ve all been designed to improve the push notifications experience in Skype, as well as sync conversations across all devices running the apps.
"We’ve been working hard to solve these issues while adding other experiences to make an improved Skype chat." Over the past few weeks, Microsoft has been rolling out updates to its various Skype clients across iOS, Android, Windows, and Windows Phone. "We know that as users have started using Skype on multiple devices, they’ve had difficulty keeping conversations in sync," admits Microsoft. Thankfully, Microsoft promised to fix it and it's delivering on part of that commitment today.
You can use Skype on a desktop PC to chat to a friend, but when you move to a smartphone or tablet the conversation doesn’t always sync properly or the mobile apps bombard you with notifications for old chats. If you use Skype frequently for messaging then the missed messages, out-of-sync chats, and blasts of old messages are a regular and irritating experience. Just something to keep in mind as some functionality is lost when dealing with coexistence.Microsoft started forcing Windows Live Messenger users over to Skype nearly a year ago, and it has been a painful experience. When you type new chants in Teams using new chat icon to a Skype user once that's set and you wait, it should automatically switch to showing they are using Skype when you tab to the chat box.Īlso keep in mind, when doing transition to Teams, Skype users cannot do group chats with Teams users, it will also want to do a meeting via Skype etc. You can use my blog if you need help on that just plug in sfbonly instead of teamsonly and wait a day or two, see if it works, it might via Powershell, I know in the past I had people say it worked by using powershell.
I would try setting your org default to Skype Only by powershell. They can message you from Skype since your on Teams only and you can respond, but you cannot initiate a chat with a Skype user set to islands.
All your chats as a Teams Only user will go to their Teams side of Islands. It's impossible to send someone a message in Skype if you are set to Islands, it doesn't work and it's not supposed to work.