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    • scottalanmillerS
      scottalanmiller
      last edited by

      Just saw it pop up a few minutes ago. That's a very new feature. Maybe I'll get to test it out shortly.

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      • Minion QueenM
        Minion Queen Banned
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        I want something that does screen sharing.

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        • bbigfordB
          bbigford @scottalanmiller
          last edited by

          @scottalanmiller said in Slack Adds Video Calling:

          Just saw it pop up a few minutes ago. That's a very new feature. Maybe I'll get to test it out shortly.

          Everyone's been waiting for that and screen sharing. As soon as that happens, the only thing left to put a silver bullet in Skype for Business would be the price.

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          • dafyreD
            dafyre @Minion Queen
            last edited by

            @Minion-Queen said in Slack Adds Video Calling:

            I want something that does screen sharing.

            I thought you had Screen Connect for this?

            Or are you talking about something like for presentations, etc?

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            • scottalanmillerS
              scottalanmiller @bbigford
              last edited by

              @BBigford said in Slack Adds Video Calling:

              @scottalanmiller said in Slack Adds Video Calling:

              Just saw it pop up a few minutes ago. That's a very new feature. Maybe I'll get to test it out shortly.

              Everyone's been waiting for that and screen sharing. As soon as that happens, the only thing left to put a silver bullet in Skype for Business would be the price.

              If only RocketChat could get these features that quickly!

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              • scottalanmillerS
                scottalanmiller
                last edited by

                Oh wait, RocketChat actually beat them on video calling, lol.

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                • wirestyle22W
                  wirestyle22 @bbigford
                  last edited by

                  @BBigford said in Slack Adds Video Calling:

                  @scottalanmiller said in Slack Adds Video Calling:

                  Just saw it pop up a few minutes ago. That's a very new feature. Maybe I'll get to test it out shortly.

                  Everyone's been waiting for that and screen sharing. As soon as that happens, the only thing left to put a silver bullet in Skype for Business would be the price.

                  Don't you get Skype for Business for free with a lot of the O365 packages? I doubt they'd switch from a free product unless it was absolute garbage

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                  • scottalanmillerS
                    scottalanmiller @wirestyle22
                    last edited by

                    @wirestyle22 said in Slack Adds Video Calling:

                    @BBigford said in Slack Adds Video Calling:

                    @scottalanmiller said in Slack Adds Video Calling:

                    Just saw it pop up a few minutes ago. That's a very new feature. Maybe I'll get to test it out shortly.

                    Everyone's been waiting for that and screen sharing. As soon as that happens, the only thing left to put a silver bullet in Skype for Business would be the price.

                    Don't you get Skype for Business for free with a lot of the O365 packages? I doubt they'd switch from a free product unless it was absolute garbage

                    Have you never used it? We have it and we DID move to other things! SfB is useless.

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                    • bbigfordB
                      bbigford @wirestyle22
                      last edited by

                      @wirestyle22 said in Slack Adds Video Calling:

                      @BBigford said in Slack Adds Video Calling:

                      @scottalanmiller said in Slack Adds Video Calling:

                      Just saw it pop up a few minutes ago. That's a very new feature. Maybe I'll get to test it out shortly.

                      Everyone's been waiting for that and screen sharing. As soon as that happens, the only thing left to put a silver bullet in Skype for Business would be the price.

                      Don't you get Skype for Business for free with a lot of the O365 packages? I doubt they'd switch from a free product unless it was absolute garbage

                      Free? Nooo... not free. Heavily discounted, but still very expensive.

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                      • wirestyle22W
                        wirestyle22 @bbigford
                        last edited by

                        @BBigford said in Slack Adds Video Calling:

                        @wirestyle22 said in Slack Adds Video Calling:

                        @BBigford said in Slack Adds Video Calling:

                        @scottalanmiller said in Slack Adds Video Calling:

                        Just saw it pop up a few minutes ago. That's a very new feature. Maybe I'll get to test it out shortly.

                        Everyone's been waiting for that and screen sharing. As soon as that happens, the only thing left to put a silver bullet in Skype for Business would be the price.

                        Don't you get Skype for Business for free with a lot of the O365 packages? I doubt they'd switch from a free product unless it was absolute garbage

                        Free? Nooo... not free. Heavily discounted, but still very expensive.

                        Ah. My non-profit could get O365 entirely for free and they still didn't do it.

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                        • bbigfordB
                          bbigford @bbigford
                          last edited by

                          @BBigford said in Slack Adds Video Calling:

                          @wirestyle22 said in Slack Adds Video Calling:

                          @BBigford said in Slack Adds Video Calling:

                          @scottalanmiller said in Slack Adds Video Calling:

                          Just saw it pop up a few minutes ago. That's a very new feature. Maybe I'll get to test it out shortly.

                          Everyone's been waiting for that and screen sharing. As soon as that happens, the only thing left to put a silver bullet in Skype for Business would be the price.

                          Don't you get Skype for Business for free with a lot of the O365 packages? I doubt they'd switch from a free product unless it was absolute garbage

                          Free? Nooo... not free. Heavily discounted, but still very expensive.

                          Heavily discounted, if you're moving from SfB on-premises. Not discounted compared to nothing... or RocketChat. 😄

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                          • bbigfordB
                            bbigford @wirestyle22
                            last edited by

                            @wirestyle22 said in Slack Adds Video Calling:

                            @BBigford said in Slack Adds Video Calling:

                            @wirestyle22 said in Slack Adds Video Calling:

                            @BBigford said in Slack Adds Video Calling:

                            @scottalanmiller said in Slack Adds Video Calling:

                            Just saw it pop up a few minutes ago. That's a very new feature. Maybe I'll get to test it out shortly.

                            Everyone's been waiting for that and screen sharing. As soon as that happens, the only thing left to put a silver bullet in Skype for Business would be the price.

                            Don't you get Skype for Business for free with a lot of the O365 packages? I doubt they'd switch from a free product unless it was absolute garbage

                            Free? Nooo... not free. Heavily discounted, but still very expensive.

                            Ah. My non-profit could get O365 entirely for free and they still didn't do it.

                            Lol what's that say about O365... 😉

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                            • wirestyle22W
                              wirestyle22 @bbigford
                              last edited by

                              @BBigford said in Slack Adds Video Calling:

                              @wirestyle22 said in Slack Adds Video Calling:

                              @BBigford said in Slack Adds Video Calling:

                              @wirestyle22 said in Slack Adds Video Calling:

                              @BBigford said in Slack Adds Video Calling:

                              @scottalanmiller said in Slack Adds Video Calling:

                              Just saw it pop up a few minutes ago. That's a very new feature. Maybe I'll get to test it out shortly.

                              Everyone's been waiting for that and screen sharing. As soon as that happens, the only thing left to put a silver bullet in Skype for Business would be the price.

                              Don't you get Skype for Business for free with a lot of the O365 packages? I doubt they'd switch from a free product unless it was absolute garbage

                              Free? Nooo... not free. Heavily discounted, but still very expensive.

                              Ah. My non-profit could get O365 entirely for free and they still didn't do it.

                              Lol what's that say about O365... 😉

                              Nothing. What does that say about my old company... 😉

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                              • bbigfordB
                                bbigford @wirestyle22
                                last edited by

                                @wirestyle22 said in Slack Adds Video Calling:

                                @BBigford said in Slack Adds Video Calling:

                                @wirestyle22 said in Slack Adds Video Calling:

                                @BBigford said in Slack Adds Video Calling:

                                @wirestyle22 said in Slack Adds Video Calling:

                                @BBigford said in Slack Adds Video Calling:

                                @scottalanmiller said in Slack Adds Video Calling:

                                Just saw it pop up a few minutes ago. That's a very new feature. Maybe I'll get to test it out shortly.

                                Everyone's been waiting for that and screen sharing. As soon as that happens, the only thing left to put a silver bullet in Skype for Business would be the price.

                                Don't you get Skype for Business for free with a lot of the O365 packages? I doubt they'd switch from a free product unless it was absolute garbage

                                Free? Nooo... not free. Heavily discounted, but still very expensive.

                                Ah. My non-profit could get O365 entirely for free and they still didn't do it.

                                Lol what's that say about O365... 😉

                                Nothing. What does that say about my old company... 😉

                                Moving SfB from on-premises, to having the back end controlled by Microsoft was the second biggest mistake made at that company in regards to SfB. The first mistake was ever going with SfB to begin with.

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                                • AdamFA
                                  AdamF
                                  last edited by

                                  Why does everyone here hate SFB? Either we are just luckly, and have not have problems on our end, or we simply are not using the same things that everyone else is using.

                                  We use it for chat, video calls, some audio calls, and basic screen sharing. So far, so good, and I've been using it for quite some time.

                                  What is the main complaint here that people are experiencing? What is better in other platforms that is inferior in SFB?

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                                  • Minion QueenM
                                    Minion Queen Banned @dafyre
                                    last edited by

                                    @dafyre said in Slack Adds Video Calling:

                                    @Minion-Queen said in Slack Adds Video Calling:

                                    I want something that does screen sharing.

                                    I thought you had Screen Connect for this?

                                    Or are you talking about something like for presentations, etc?

                                    Presentations etc.

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                                    • scottalanmillerS
                                      scottalanmiller @bbigford
                                      last edited by

                                      @BBigford said in Slack Adds Video Calling:

                                      @wirestyle22 said in Slack Adds Video Calling:

                                      @BBigford said in Slack Adds Video Calling:

                                      @scottalanmiller said in Slack Adds Video Calling:

                                      Just saw it pop up a few minutes ago. That's a very new feature. Maybe I'll get to test it out shortly.

                                      Everyone's been waiting for that and screen sharing. As soon as that happens, the only thing left to put a silver bullet in Skype for Business would be the price.

                                      Don't you get Skype for Business for free with a lot of the O365 packages? I doubt they'd switch from a free product unless it was absolute garbage

                                      Free? Nooo... not free. Heavily discounted, but still very expensive.

                                      It's included in many of the packages. No one would pay for that. It's always a freebie.

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                                      • bbigfordB
                                        bbigford @AdamF
                                        last edited by

                                        @fuznutz04 said in Slack Adds Video Calling:

                                        Why does everyone here hate SFB? Either we are just luckly, and have not have problems on our end, or we simply are not using the same things that everyone else is using.

                                        We use it for chat, video calls, some audio calls, and basic screen sharing. So far, so good, and I've been using it for quite some time.

                                        What is the main complaint here that people are experiencing? What is better in other platforms that is inferior in SFB?

                                        SfB performance has been falling further and further behind with video feed latency. There is also a group limit, that magic number is 99. You have 100 people in the company and you want to let them know that email is down? Well you can send it to separate groups, but the premise behind having a number be as low as 100 to send out a mass emergency IM is low.

                                        As far as latency, if you have SfB Online, then asking Microsoft to do something about it is all you can do since the infrastructure is 100% in their control. When we had issues, we were told there was nothing they could do. We had 10G fiber between buildings, 10G switches, etc. Nothing on our end was lacking as far as necessary resources to get a consistent video feed. Screen sharing for presentations can be a joke with the navigation at times. Some nice features, but something left to be desired.

                                        Bottom line, it's feature rich so one can't say it's missing features that others provide. What can be said is that SfB has a massive toolbox, full of weak tools. What good is a wrench, if it's made out of flimsy material?

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                                        • Minion QueenM
                                          Minion Queen Banned
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                                          Regular old skype works much better for pretty much everything (other than administrative account control) than SfB.

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                                          • wirestyle22W
                                            wirestyle22 @Minion Queen
                                            last edited by

                                            @Minion-Queen said in Slack Adds Video Calling:

                                            Regular old skype works much better for pretty much everything (other than administrative account control) than SfB.

                                            sad

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