Sent Tuesday, Mar. 13, 2020 5:18 p.m.
ITS was in progress of deploying Microsoft Teams meetings on a college by college/department by department basis. With the events of the past week we are accelerating deployment of Teams meetings and will migrate the campus this weekend. This change will provide improved functionality over Skype for Business meetings for those teaching remotely, as well as those working remotely.
The principle advantages of Teams meetings are:
- Cloud hosted, therefore better capacity to handle increase load
- Technology that better handles low bandwidth situations
- Cloud based recording
- Closed captioning
Teams meetings has the same look and feel when scheduling via Microsoft Outlook.
When the conversions are complete, you will see a Teams meeting icon in your Outlook ribbon, replacing the Skype for Business icon.
After the conversation you will only be able to schedule Teams Meetings i.e. you can no longer schedule Skype for Business meetings. However, you can still attend Skype for Business Meetings.
All of your currently scheduled meetings will be automatically converted to Teams meetings. There will be a new call in number and conference ID when the existing meetings are converted.
Please consult the following links for added information and functionality:
- Working Remotely: https://www.marquette.edu/remote-work/
- Scheduling a meeting via Outlook: https://support.office.com/en-us/article/set-up-an-online-meeting-in-outlook-b8305620-d16e-4667-989d-4a977aad6556
- Joining a Teams Meeting https://www.marquette.edu/remote-work/microsoft-teams-meetings.php
We appreciate your patience during this scheduled maintenance window. Please contact the IT Services Help Desk at 8-7799 with any questions.
Dan Smith
Deputy CIO
IT Services
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