When you are scheduled for a meeting in your Outlook Calendar, your status will automatically change to busy in Skype. With Skype for Business set to the default settings your presence or availability are set to available when you log into Skype. (The one exception here is that contacts you have a Workgroup relationship with may need to find you at your work site, so only these contacts can see your meeting locations and get your attention via Skype even if you’ve set your status to Do Not Disturb.) Friends and Family, as you might expect, can see more of this information than all the others.

For example, Colleagues, which is the relationship new contacts are given by default when you add them, can learn more about where you are, when you’ll be available, and how to reach you than External Contacts but less than Workgroup. Each of your contacts has one of five privacy relationships with you, and each relationship gives access to a different amount of information. In Skype for Business, privacy relationships control how much of your presence information others see. Your presence information includes your availability status (such as Available or Away ), a color-coded presence indicator (such as green, yellow, or red), your schedule, your location, and your personal or out-of-office notes. IMPORTANT: Microsoft Teams will replace Skype for Business on August 5th.

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