Joining a Faculty of Medicine bridge meeting: dial in through UBC Skype for Business from your desk.Virtual one-on-one meetings and group meetings: Conduct meetings without scheduling a physical meeting space.User Availability: Users can indicate if they are available, busy, away, or offline, with an option to set their current location.Real-time communication: Instant Messaging (IM) facilitates an immediate, continued exchange - less intrusive than a phone call but more immediate than email.UBC Skype for Business offers flexible ways and convenient ways to meet from your desktop via:

Skype requires a headset and webcam, for information on what the Faculty of Medicine recommends, please visit the equipment page. The following organizations have rolled out Skype for Business and connected with UBC's Skype for Business network: If you are employed by a Health Authority or a partnering organization and use a device that is not supplied by UBC, you may be eligible for Skype for Business from your own organization. Please contact the MedIT Service Desk at or call 1-87 option 1 if you are interested in using Skype for Business or assistance with getting started. For Faculty of Medicine administrative users, it offers web and videoconferencing from your desktop. Skype for Business is an enterprise wide collaboration tool offered under UBCIT's Collaboration Suite. MS Teams and OneDrive features video conferencing, group chat, and collaboration in real-time using Microsoft Office applications like Word, PowerPoint and Excel.

Any meetings with telephone participants will have to be moved to Zoom.

Meetings that have been booked on Skype for Business will have to be rescheduled on MS Teams.Members looking to chat and meet virtually will have to do so on MS Teams.

Members using non-UBC computers will need to download MS Teams.Skype for Business will no longer be operational after March 26, 2021.Key changes if you're currently using Skype for Business: The Faculty of Medicine will be upgrading from Skype for Business to Microsoft (MS) Teams on March 26, 2021.

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