Skype Meetings App also has many improvements over the Skype for Business Web App for reliability and the meeting experience. Skype Meetings App offers a simplified browser experience for downloading and installing the app and joining meetings, including one-click join for users of Internet Explorer. Starting with CU5, Skype Meetings App is available as a replacement for Skype for Business Web App. The default server behaviour is to interact with a user to download and install Skype for Business Web App to join the meeting. Whenever a user clicks a meeting URL but does not have the Skype for Business client installed, the user is presented with the option to join the meeting by using Skype for Business Web App. What is the SkypeMeetingApp and SkypeWebApp and differences before we enable it from here Also allows the simplifed meeting join experience and noted more reliable than webapp. It appears for the Meeting App we allow access to the CDN where the meetings App can be downloaded from instead of from your Skype for Business server. It seems for to enable the Meeting App we need to do something on the backend and here it is. If you don’t have the desktop version of Skype for Business, or don’t have a Skype for Business account, you can use Skype Meetings App or Skype for Business Web App to join a Skype for Business meeting from your browser.ĭepending on how your organization is set up, you will use either Skype Meetings App or Skype for Business Web App. Once better user experience than the SkypeWebApp.

Once i had the meeting app installed and went to join a meeting after when i click the Meeting join it launch the Skypemeetingapp straight away and i entered my join and i was in.

The default with SfB Server event with CU5 is SkypeWebApp. So it seems there is now a Skype Web App and Skype Meeting App more details on this here Īnd its dependent how the deployment is configured to which is available. Then i thought as its listed twice perhaps it needs enabling ? Then i found this I thought the on premises guys are left behind again but fear not. So after installing CU5 i tried to join a meeting and i got the same Skype for Business Web App Prompts. JoinLauncher: Port Modern Meeting Join Experience to W16” from here I had to dig on this.Ĥ015907 Update that enables simplified meeting join experience in Skype for Business Server 2015 from hereĪnd “4. Following Skype for Business Server 2015 CU installation as part of the release notes i noticed something regarding meeting join experiences and i had a light bulb moment perhaps the new meeting join experience that’s already live in Skype for Business Online has come on premises.

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