Using Skype For Business For Conference Calls
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@bnrstnr Exactly. That was the first one I thought of too.
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One of the issues for us with Teams, is that we don't have a subscription to it, but it installs it and turns on a trial by default if we accidentally let any of the users open it. So it's invasive in three ways...
- It forcibly installs, and then reinstalls itself, in defiance of the system admin and the Windows install system.
- It forcibly starts itself and puts an icon on the desktop, not only without permission, but even after being set to not do so.
- It aggressively opens accounts by way of unprivileged users to trick them into using an unauthorized system.
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@Dashrender said in Using Skype For Business For Conference Calls:
@scottalanmiller said in Using Skype For Business For Conference Calls:
@Dashrender said in Using Skype For Business For Conference Calls:
MS is clearly SHOVING Teams down everyone's throat
A clear sign that they don't believe that people will choose it on its merits.
Now this statement is a borderline bash. Sure it's shoving.. but at the same time, knocking off/replacing an incumbent is often challenging to say the least.
I won't go so far as to say they won't.. but I definitely see where you're coming from.
If Scott doest like it and/or has features he doesn't want or use, it's malware and evil.
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@scottalanmiller said in Using Skype For Business For Conference Calls:
One of the issues for us with Teams, is that we don't have a subscription to it, but it installs it and turns on a trial by default if we accidentally let any of the users open it. So it's invasive in three ways...
- It forcibly installs, and then reinstalls itself, in defiance of the system admin and the Windows install system.
- It forcibly starts itself and puts an icon on the desktop, not only without permission, but even after being set to not do so.
- It aggressively opens accounts by way of unprivileged users to trick them into using an unauthorized system.
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@Obsolesce said in Using Skype For Business For Conference Calls:
@scottalanmiller said in Using Skype For Business For Conference Calls:
One of the issues for us with Teams, is that we don't have a subscription to it, but it installs it and turns on a trial by default if we accidentally let any of the users open it. So it's invasive in three ways...
- It forcibly installs, and then reinstalls itself, in defiance of the system admin and the Windows install system.
- It forcibly starts itself and puts an icon on the desktop, not only without permission, but even after being set to not do so.
- It aggressively opens accounts by way of unprivileged users to trick them into using an unauthorized system.
That's been the standard approach for several years now, it was a major shift from what I know I was used to (MSI) but it does work.
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@scottalanmiller said in Using Skype For Business For Conference Calls:
@bnrstnr said in Using Skype For Business For Conference Calls:
If I upgrade from Fedora 29 to 30 and didn't have LibreOffice installed, it doesn't randomly come back and pop up all kinds of shit harassing me to use it every time I login.
Nor does it install new things, without being given permission, after the fact. Windows will just keep adding things that I removed, or adds different things to replace ones I removed.
This isn't fair to say Windows does this - as Windows doesn't, at least not in the case of Teams. The fact that Office from O365 is install is what is doing that...
OneDrve - OK, that's Windows.
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@Dashrender said in Using Skype For Business For Conference Calls:
@scottalanmiller said in Using Skype For Business For Conference Calls:
@bnrstnr said in Using Skype For Business For Conference Calls:
If I upgrade from Fedora 29 to 30 and didn't have LibreOffice installed, it doesn't randomly come back and pop up all kinds of shit harassing me to use it every time I login.
Nor does it install new things, without being given permission, after the fact. Windows will just keep adding things that I removed, or adds different things to replace ones I removed.
This isn't fair to say Windows does this - as Windows doesn't, at least not in the case of Teams. The fact that Office from O365 is install is what is doing that...
OneDrve - OK, that's Windows.
Good point, It keeps being added in Windows, it isn't Windows doing the adding.
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I've worked on a project with a company that uses Skype for Business. They always complain about it, but my biggest complaint is sometimes it takes a whole minute before it unmutes my mic.
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@flaxking said in Using Skype For Business For Conference Calls:
my biggest complaint is sometimes it takes a whole minute before it unmutes my mic.
What?!?!
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@scottalanmiller said in Using Skype For Business For Conference Calls:
@flaxking said in Using Skype For Business For Conference Calls:
my biggest complaint is sometimes it takes a whole minute before it unmutes my mic.
What?!?!
Sometimes it's just enough of a delay to be annoying, but 1 minute can be detrimental.
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To me that sounds like you have a s***** microphone if you take it up to a minute. I do not have that issue at all with any of my users and I have $170 people using it
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@DustinB3403 said in Using Skype For Business For Conference Calls:
To me that sounds like you have a s***** microphone if you take it up to a minute. I do not have that issue at all with any of my users and I have $170 people using it
I click the unmute button in the app and it freezes. Happens on both my home computer and my work computer.
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They have over 1000 users, but I have no idea on their setup, so maybe their complaints are mostly caused by their own setup, idk.
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@flaxking said in Using Skype For Business For Conference Calls:
@DustinB3403 said in Using Skype For Business For Conference Calls:
To me that sounds like you have a s***** microphone if you take it up to a minute. I do not have that issue at all with any of my users and I have $170 people using it
I click the unmute button in the app and it freezes. Happens on both my home computer and my work computer.
All software can give weird issues.
Even slack gives me weird issues sometimes. Sometimes it will start using like 3GB of ram for no reason until I restart the app. Then it's fine, staying 500mb or less typically. It's fine, I don't care about plus or minus a hundred MB, but several GB is crazy. I screenshotted before.
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@flaxking said in Using Skype For Business For Conference Calls:
I've worked on a project with a company that uses Skype for Business. They always complain about it, but my biggest complaint is sometimes it takes a whole minute before it unmutes my mic.
SfB is obsolescent.
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Yes, they have a special audio conferencing license for SFB, and now Teams. It is an add-on license that you assign to specific users. Although, based on your use-case, I can't tell if it would be of any real help. Here is more info on it. As others have said over and over, you should look elsewhere.
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/skypeforbusiness/audio-conferencing-in-office-365/try-or-purchase-audio-conferencing-in-office-365
