

See Request telephone service in an office. No new UniCom/Skype for Business accounts will be created new faculty or staff telephone service will be assigned in Microsoft Teams. Faculty and staff should continue to use Skype for Business for external phone calls until migrated to Teams Calls.

UITS encourages all students, faculty, and staff to switch from Skype for Business to Teams for chat now. The remaining configuration steps below enable the Better Together over Ethernet (BToE) feature which allows you to control the telephone with the Skype for Business client on your Windows PC.Office telephone service for faculty and staff at Indiana University will begin to transition from Skype for Business to Microsoft Teams at IU in the first quarter of 2023. You can review the status from the phone by selecting the BTOE option on the main screen.Īt this point the phone is connected to your Skype for Business account and can be used to send and receive calls.

If you did not enter your Skype for Business credentials on the phone earlier, the Lync client will now pop-up an authentication window asking for the proper Lync credentials for the telephone. If you entered your Skype for Business credentials on the phone earlier, you are done.A BToE icon will now appear on the system tray at the bottom right side of your screen. On your computer, launch the BToE Connector that you installed earlier.On your computer, launch the Skype for Business client.BToE requires that computer is tether to the phone to operate. Confirm that your computer’s Ethernet cable is plugged into the PC port on the back of the phone.Use the BToE Connector to Pair your Phone to your Computer
