Windows 10: Introducing free Skype Meetings

Brink · Jul 5, 2016

We’re pleased to introduce free Skype Meetings—a new online meetings tool that provides small businesses with real-time audio and HD video conferencing. Skype Meetings includes collaboration features like the ability to share screens and content during meetings.

Watch this video to see Skype Meetings in action:

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With Skype Meetings, you can quickly set up meetings and share a personalized URL that participants click to join the meeting. During the meeting, participants can IM, share their screen or PowerPoint presentation or use the laser pointer and whiteboard features to make it more engaging and productive. The meeting organizer also gets professional meeting controls such as the ability to mute the audience in order to be heard.

Anyone in the U.S. with a business email address and whose organization doesn’t already have Office 365 can sign up for free Skype Meetings at www.skype.com/meetings. Once you sign up, you can set up meetings for up to 10 people for the first 60 days and up to 3 people thereafter. All you need is a device with an Internet browser, a microphone, speaker and camera, which are included on many devices.

If you have an Office 365 business subscription that includes Skype for Business, then you already have richer online meetings capabilities, such as the ability to conduct large group meetings for up to 250 people and the ability to IM anyone in your organization at any time—not just during meetings. In addition, Skype for Business is integrated with other Office 365 apps to enable you to do things like schedule a Skype meeting from your Outlook calendar, see your colleagues’ presence, and initiate an IM or start an audio or video conversation within apps like Outlook, Word and PowerPoint.

Start a free meeting today at go.skype.com/meetings.

—Andrew Sinclair, general manager for Skype for Business
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Source: Introducing free Skype Meetings - Office Blogs

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Greg Carmack - Windows MVP · Jul 5, 2016

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Hi Peter. I'm Greg, a volunteer installation specialist and 8 year Windows MVP, here to help you.

Most of these meetings are with Skype for Business and follow this procedure to connect:

https://support.office.com/en-us/article/Join-a...

I use that to join Microsoft meetings and usually just need to make sure I have Skype for Business installed, if it asks when I click on the Meeting allow it to change Apps as it is going to change to the Skype app from your Mail or browser.

I hope this helps. Feel free to ask back any questions and let us know how it goes. I will keep working with you until it's resolved.

PeterRyan9309 · Jul 5, 2016

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Hi Peter. I'm Greg, a volunteer installation specialist and 8 year Windows MVP, here to help you.

Most of these meetings are with Skype for Business and follow this procedure to connect:

https://support.office.com/en-us/article/Join-a...

I use that to join Microsoft meetings and usually just need to make sure I have Skype for Business installed, if it asks when I click on the Meeting allow it to change Apps as it is going to change to the Skype app from your Mail or browser.

I hope this helps. Feel free to ask back any questions and let us know how it goes. I will keep working with you until it's resolved.
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Thanks but I still have absolutely no idea what to do??

I have skype installed but it has no conference call option

Do I need to instal something else and if so where is it? All the on line info is confusing to me

What they sent was a meeting no and a call in number only. I was not sent anything to click on

No idea as to how to proceed!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Is there a skype meetings app link to download

Apologies for my ignorance and thanks in advance

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