With today's release of Outlook 2016 for Mac, Skype for Business Online users on a Mac who are configured as delegates can schedule Skype for Business meetings on behalf of their delegators. When using the latest release of Outlook, a delegate can create or edit a meeting in the delegator's calendar and make it a Skype for Business meeting. The online meeting will be set up using the delegator’s policies and join information.
Essentially, the issue seems to be that Outlook for Mac does not sync entries up to the Office 365 server that she creates on the delegated calendar. However, if we delete and re-create her Outlook for Mac profile, it will work for a few days, but then suddenly stop working again. Skype for Business Online Delegate Calendar Scheduling. So that they appear as the meeting organizer, and the meeting will use their meeting ID rather than the assistant. Then the delegate simply needs to double-click on the boss’s calendar inside outlook to create a new Skype Meeting. This entry was posted in Skype for Business on.
Note that this is for Skype for Business Online users only. Support for delegate scheduling by Skype for Business 2015 server users will be available in a future server update. Until that time, on-prem users can schedule Skype for Business meetings in the delegator's calendar, but the meeting will be set up using the policies and join information of the delegate, not the delegator. To get started,. You also need Skype for Business on Mac version 16.13 (from December, 2017) or later. If you have an older version of either app, click Check for Updates on the Help menu of the respective app.
Make sure both apps are running when you schedule your meeting, and you are all set! Great feature. One request though: Please enable the optional choice to create a meeting using delegate OR delegator policies / join information / available licensing.
Scenario: My account has ' Audio Conferencing' license, which allows to create meetings with ability to join by calling via phone number. I have a delegated access to a our company VP in who's calendar I need to create a meeting. A VP hasn't got 'Audio Conferencing' licence on his account, so he can't create Skype meeting himself with ability to have an option to call in via phone number. So I would like to be able to create a meeting in his calendar, with an option for attendees to call in via a phone number, because I've got an 'Audio Conferencing' license.
(hope this makes sense:) ) Thanks.