Feature/capability | Skype for Business 2015 and 2016 client | Skype for Business on Mac | Lync 2013 | Lync Windows Store app | Lync 2013 Basic | Lync Web App | Lync 2010 | Lync 2010 Attendant | Lync Phone Edition | Communicator for Mac 2011 | Lync for Mac 2011 |
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View status | ● | ● | ● | ● | ● | ● | ● | ● | ● | ● | |
Publish status | ● | ● | ● | ● | ● | ● | ● | ● | ● | ● | |
View status notes and Out of Office messages | ● | ● | ● | ● | ● | ● | ● | ● | ● | ● | |
Add a custom location | ● | ● | ● | ● | |||||||
Add a custom note | ● | ● | ● | ● | ● | ● | ● | ● | ● | ||
Use a photo from any public site for My Picture | ● | ● |
Feature/capability | Skype for Business 2015 and 2016 client | Skype for Business on Mac | Lync 2013 | Lync Windows Store app | Lync 2013 Basic | Lync Web App | Lync 2010 | Lync 2010 Attendant | Lync Phone Edition | Communicator for Mac 2011 | Lync for Mac 2011 |
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View and Modify Contacts list | ● | ● | ● | ● | ● | ● | ●1 | ● | ● | ● | |
Tag contacts for status change alerts | ● | ● | ● | ● | ● | ●1 | ● | ||||
Control privacy relationships | ● | ● | ● | ● | ●1 | ||||||
Search the corporate address book | ● | ● | ● | ● | ● | ● | ●1 | ● | ● | ● | |
Search Microsoft Outlook contacts | ● | ● | ● | ● | ● | ●1 | ● | ● | |||
Manage contact groups | ● | ● | ● | ● | ● | ●1 | ● | ● | |||
Expand distribution groups and Microsoft 365 Groups | ● | ● | ● | ● | ● | ● | ●1 | ● | |||
Search for Response Groups | ●2 | ●2 | ● | ●1 | |||||||
Display recent contacts group | ● | ● | ● | ● | ●1 | ||||||
Display current conversations group | ● | ● | ● | ● | ● | ●1 | ● | ||||
Display alternate contact views (for example, tile) | ● | ● | ● | ● | ● | ●1 | ● | ||||
Sort contacts by Group, Relationship, or New (people who’ve added you to their Contacts list) | ● | ● | Sort by group | ● | ●1 | ||||||
Sort contacts by Status (availability) | ● | ● | ● | ●1 | ● | ||||||
Search and add Exchange contacts | ● | ● | ● |
Feature/capability | Skype for Business 2015 and 2016 client | Skype for Business on Mac | Lync 2013 | Lync Windows Store app | Lync 2013 Basic | Lync Web App | Lync 2010 | Lync 2010 Attendant | Lync Phone Edition | Communicator for Mac 2011 | Lync for Mac 2011 |
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Initiate IM or email to a contact | ● | ● | ● | ● | ● | ● | ●1 | ● | ● | ||
Navigate among multiple IM conversations/Track multiple conversations in a single tabbed window | ● | ● | ● | ● | ● | ● | ●1 | ● | ● | ||
Log IM conversations in Outlook | ● | ● | ● | ● | ● | ●1 | Saved in Communicator for Mac | Saved in Lync for Mac | |||
Use prepared conversation templates | ● | ●1 | |||||||||
Check spelling | ● | ● | ● | ● | ● | ||||||
Skill search (with SharePoint Server integration) | ●2 | ●2 | ●2 | ● 2 | ●1, 2 | ||||||
Persistent Chat (Group Chat) integration | ●3 | ●3 | ●3 | ||||||||
Escalate a Persistent Chat room to a Lync Meeting with one click | ●3 | ●3 | |||||||||
Inline pictures of sender and receiver in IM window | ● | ● | ● | ● | |||||||
Send ink messages | ● | ||||||||||
Receive ink messages | ● | ● | ● | ||||||||
Set IM messages as high importance | ● | ● |
Feature/capability | Skype for Business 2015 and 2016 client | Skype for Business on Mac | Lync 2013 | Lync Windows Store app | Lync 2013 Basic | Lync Web App | Lync 2010 | Lync 2010 Attendant | Lync Phone Edition | Communicator for Mac 2011 | Lync for Mac 2011 |
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Add computer audio | ● | ● | ● | ● | ● | ● (requires plug-in) | ● | ●1 | ● | ● | ● |
Add video | ● | ● | ● | ● | ● | ● (requires plug-in) | ● | ● | ● | ||
View multiparty video (gallery view) | ● | ● | ● | ● | ● | ||||||
Use in-meeting presenter controls | ● | ● | ● | ● | ● | ● | ● | ● | |||
Access detailed meeting roster | ● | ● | ● | ● | ● | ● | ● | ●1 | ● | ||
Participate in multiparty IM | ● | ● | ● | ● | ● | ● | ● | ●1 | ● | ● | |
Share the desktop (if enabled) | ● | ● 2 | ● | ● | ● (requires plug-in) | ● | ●2 | ●2 | |||
Share a program (if enabled) | ● | View only | ● | ● | ● (requires plug-in) | ● | View only | ||||
Add anonymous participants (if enabled) | ● | ● | ● | ● | ● | ● | ● | ||||
Use dial-in audio meetings | ●3 | ● | ●3 | ●3 | ●3 | ●3 | ● | ●1 | ● | ||
Initiate a Meet Now meeting | ● | ● | ● | ● | ● | ● | ● | ||||
Add and present Microsoft PowerPoint files | ● | ● | Present only | ● | ● | ● | View only, annotations not available4 | ||||
Navigate Microsoft PowerPoint files | ● | ● | ● | ● | ● | ● | |||||
Add and edit OneNote meeting notes | ● | ● | Edit only (not add) | ||||||||
Use a whiteboard | ● | ● | ● | ● | ● | ||||||
Conduct polls | ● | ● | ● | ● | ● | ||||||
Upload files to share with others | ● | ● | ● | ● | ● | ● | |||||
Schedule a meeting or conference | Outlook or Lync Web Scheduler | Requires Mac Outlook version 15.28 or later | Outlook or Lync Web Scheduler | Outlook or Lync Web Scheduler | Outlook or Lync Web Scheduler | Lync Web Scheduler | ● | Outlook | |||
Q&A Manager | ● | ● | ● | ||||||||
Create public meetings with static meeting IDs from Outlook | ● | ● | ● | ||||||||
Disable meeting IM | ● | ● | ● | ● | ● | ● | |||||
Mute Audience | ● | ● | ● | ● | ● | ● | ● | ||||
Make everyone an attendee | ● | ● | ● | ● | ● | ● | |||||
Delegate can schedule a meeting on behalf of delegator | ● | ● | ● | ● | |||||||
Synchronize delegates between UNRESOLVED_TOKEN_VAL(skypeforbusiness) and Outlook | ● | ● | ● | ● | |||||||
Set Video Spotlight (lock video) | ● | ● | ● | ● | ● | ● | ● | ● | |||
Give/Take control of screen sharing | ● | ● | ● | ● |
Feature/capability | Skype for Business 2015 and 2016 client | Skype for Business on Mac | Lync 2013 | Lync Windows Store app | Lync 2013 Basic | Lync Web App | Lync 2010 | Lync 2010 Attendant | Lync Phone Edition | Communicator for Mac 2011 | Lync for Mac 2011 |
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Initiate a call | ●2 | ● | ●2 | ● | ●2 | ●2 | ●1 | ● | ● | ● | |
Click to call a contact | ●2 | ● | ●2 | ● | ●2 | ●2 | ●1 | ● | ● | ● | |
Transfer a call | ●2 | ● | ●2 | ● | ●2 | ●2 | ●1 | ● | ● | ||
Manage call forwarding | ●3 | ● | ●3 | ● | ●3 | ●1 | ● | ● | |||
Manage team call settings | ●3 | ●3 | ●3 | ●1 | |||||||
Manage delegates | ●3 | ●3 | ●3 | ● | |||||||
Initiate a call to a Response Group | ●3 | ●3 | ●3 | ●1 | |||||||
Support emergency services (E911) | ●3 | ● Requires Lync Server 2013 CU8 HF1 or later | ●3 | ●3 | ●3 | ●1 | ● | ● | |||
IM notification to SIP URI(s) for E-911 call | ● | ● | ● | ● | ● | ● | ● | ● | |||
IM notification to distribution list for E-911 call | ● | ● | ● | ● | ● | ● | ● | ||||
Connect to voice mail, set up or change greeting | ●3 | ● | ●3 | ● | ●3 | ●1 | ● | ● | |||
Missed call notification | ● | ● | ● | ● | ● | ● | ● | ● | ● | ||
Make calls on behalf of another contact (manager/delegate scenario) | ●3 | ●3 | ●3 | ||||||||
Handle another's calls if configured as a delegate | ●3 | ●3 | ●3 | ●1 | ● | ||||||
Manage a high volume of calls | ●3 | ●1 | |||||||||
Call park | ●3 | ●3 | |||||||||
Group call pickup | ●3 | ●3 | ● |
Feature/capability | Skype for Business 2015 and 2016 client | Skype for Business on Mac | Lync 2013 | Lync Windows Store app | Lync Web App | Lync 2010 | Lync 2010 Attendant | Lync Phone Edition | Communicator for Mac 2011 | Lync for Mac 2011 |
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Initiate IM with a public contact | ● | ● | ● | ● | ● | ●1 | ● | ● | ||
Initiate IM with a federated contact | ● | ● | ● | ● | ● | ●1 | ● | ● | ||
Conduct two-party or multiparty calls with external users | ●2 | ● | ●2 | ●2 | ● | ●1 | ● | ● | ● |
Feature/capability | Skype for Business 2015 and 2016 client | Skype for Business on Mac | Lync 2013 | Lync Windows Store app | Lync 2013 Basic | Lync Web App | Lync 2010 | Lync 2010 Attendant | Lync Phone Edition | Communicator for Mac 2011 | Lync for Mac 2011 |
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Client-side recording of audio, video, application sharing, desktop sharing, and uploaded content | ●1 | ●1 | ● | ||||||||
Client-side recording of file transfers, shared OneNote pages, and PowerPoint annotations | ●2 | ●2 | ● | ||||||||
Select preferred recording resolution | ● | ● |
Feature/capability | Skype for Business 2015 and 2016 client | Skype for Business on Mac | Lync 2013 | Lync Windows Store app | Lync 2013 Basic | Lync Web App | Lync 2010 | Lync 2010 Attendant | Lync Phone Edition | Communicator for Mac 2011 | Lync for Mac 2011 |
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Archiving of IM conversations in Outlook Conversation History | ●2 | ●2 | ●2 | ●2 | ● | ●1 | Saved in Communicator for Mac | ● | |||
Client-side archiving of audio, video, application sharing, desktop sharing, and uploaded content | ●2 | ●2 | ● | ||||||||
Client-side archiving of file transfers, shared OneNote pages, and PowerPoint annotations | ●3 | ●3 | ● | ||||||||
Access sign-in logs from Lync icon in the task bar | ● | ● | ● |