There was nothing else at my end, I was able to immediately add my own Skype contact to my Lync contact, and communicate between the two. Access Proxy, Domain, Public IM Networks, and Main Contact (Name, Email Address, Phone #).Īfter sending this off, overnight they had quoted 3-5 days to make it happen, but had set it up in less than 6 hours. The information they require are your Enterprise Name, Agreement Number.
on twitter directed me to send an email to for Lync to Skype federation. This guide mentions that you need to go to to sign up, which I did, but going through the process resulted in the error at the bottom of this post*. I’d recommend starting with the “Provisioning Guide for Lync-Skype Connectivity: Lync Server 2013 and Lync Online” (which also works for Lync 2010) Microsoft have made available here:
It doesn’t just magically work though, the Lync administrator needs to apply with Microsoft for the Skype to Lync federation to occur. It’s a fairly easy process to request, assuming that you’ve already got standard federation up and running with edge servers. This was launched 29th May 2013 as per this post Microsoft Lync can now federate to Skype! This means that users can communicate between each system, which is awesome.
