Communicate With Lync In Office 365. Lync 2013 doesnt allow communication with Lync Online Office 365 out of the box. If you want to be able to seamlessly communicate with employees in other organizations that are also using Lync you can set up a trust so-called federation between your organizations so that your employees can communicate with each other using Lync note that this is not supported in the Lync version which comes with Office 365 Small Business and Small.
Im not familiar with Office 365 and what control this service gives you over your server infrastructure if any but if you take a look at the OCSLync deployment guide and the configuration steps you need to make on the OCSLync servers in order for them to trust the VCS and optionally to set up static routes I dont believe that you will be able to perform these steps using Office 365. The main features of Lync Online are. Lync Online the instant messaging online meeting and PC-to-PC voice and video communications tool in Office 365 will gain interoperability with non-Microsoft IM networks.
Lync Online Conferencing Web Scheduler Available.
Hello Ive been banging my head for the past week trying to get our on-premise Lync federation working with other Lync environments specifically Office 365. Today Microsoft announced Lync in Office 365 or Lync Server OnPremises 20102013 unified communications capabilities to the hundreds of millions of people who use Skype. The ability to communicate with anyone outside your organization is turned off by default in Lync Online Wave 15 Office 365. Meet Microsoft Teams Microsoft 365 Apps for business Microsoft Teams replaced Lync and it has all the features of Lync plus powerful capabilities that make it easier to connect share and collaborate across devices and locations.
