Jabber and Skype for Business

[Salesman.Gil1]

Hello All - 

My company relies solely on the Jabber client for all calls and IM. We have a tightly related company that uses Skype for Business. 

I was wondering if there is a way for us to communicate between the two systems. Calls and IM would be preferred, but at least IM. Presence would be a bonus. 

In the background my company uses Office 365, and I can successfully communicate with the other company if I use Skype for Business. 

Thank you for your time and thoughts.

[Jaime Valencia]

There's plenty of information if you search skype for business on cisco.com

http://www.cisco.com/c/en/us/td/docs/voice_ip_comm/cucm/im_presence/intradomain_federation/11_5_1_SU2/cup0_b_partitioned-intradomain-federation-imp-1151su2/cup0_b_partitioned-intradomain-federation-imp-1151su2_chapter_0101.html

http://www.cisco.com/c/dam/en/us/solutions/collateral/enterprise/interoperability-portal/cucm-skype-business-tls-appnote.pdf

http://www.cisco.com/c/dam/en/us/solutions/collateral/enterprise/interoperability-portal/skyp-for-business.pdf

http://www.cisco.com/c/dam/en/us/solutions/collateral/enterprise/interoperability-portal/expressways-kype_for-business.pdf

If you have CMS, you can also use it as a gateway between CUCM and S4B and that is now the preferred option due to interoperability.

[Peter Valdes]

Hi Jaime,

Thanks for the links. Are these on-prem S4B or O365? Sorry, new to this and we are after the same solution, voice and IM between Jabber and Skype.

Thanks

Peter

[Alok Jaiswal]

Hi,

If your company has an expressway solution, you can use that for sharing IM & presence between the Lync and jabber. 

If you want to use calling between the two, preferred solution is now to have a CMS. Expressway is capable of doing AVC<-->SVC conversion, however the broker solution is not available for O365 in any document. So unfortunately only way is to use CMS for calling. 

Or

Since you mentioned both the firms are tightly related if you can enable VPN between the two then you can use broker but that will involve lots of port openings specially when ICE/TURN comes in picture.

Regards,

Alok

[ziqex]

Hello everyone,

I wonder if Cisco Jabber offers integration with Skype for Business.

I have found the following tool Cisco UC Integration(TM) for Microsoft Lync, but I think it may be overkill for our requirements.

I would like to accomplish the following. After finding the contact in Skype for Business and clicking call the call to be pointing to the Cisco Jabber (call to be placed) rather than to the Skype for Business. Thank you.

Regards,

Daniel