We use SfB conferencing for live or prerecorded webinars.
The problem we have now is that non-SfB users are logged as 'Anonymous'.

For example: A webinar with 10 external persons who use the web client are all logged as 'Anonymous'. For our Marketing this is very frustrating, as they can't contact the participants afterwards. For now we have to write down who actually attended a meeting.

I had a SfB chat with support today, they said it will be integrated in a next release. But they couldn't say a date or version.

Hope this will be fixed very soon.

Michel
NEXTEL NV

When joining an external meeting using the link provided for a webapp, IE/Lync/S4B will autosense the installed Lync client and try to launch it which will fail unless you have federation setup to allow the other domain. Adding ?sl=1 to the URL works but should not be necessary for a general user to have to do this. Nor is it a good look when sending invites to a customer to tell them they need to edit the hyperlink.
There needs to be a way to join an external meeting without requiring federation when the Lync/S4B client is installed on a desktop.

Just looking at the drop down list of possible categories helps explain why the functionality is so lacking in what is possibly the most important part of any collaboration software package - the value you add by allowing people to see (not hear - we still all have phones) what anyone on the call is doing.

If you look at any product on the market - Webex, Joinme, GoTo Meeting - they all without exception have a common denominator of allowing the participants on a call to experience the full screen of the presenter (if that is what they want to do, if they want to use the existing functionality of Skype for Business, that's their choice I guess).

What is confounding is why this wasn't in the product prior to its "launch" given the multi-billion dollar business created by the competitors I just mentioned. In my experience, this product's value is going to be as much more more as an ad-hoc tool to show someone something while they are on a traditional phone call, second will be to schedule meetings to that as well - and whether they can all join in on the web or use a phone number to conference in is still a distant second from a realistic full screen sharing experience. Finally, yes, the value of structured calls amongst individuals in an organization in my opinion is a distant third to the first two in terms of value add. You will convince the C suite guys how great this dove tails in with o365 but the actual users who will try to use it to do their jobs will just get enormously frustrated and end up using the other apps I mentioned - or will have a suboptimal interaction because they wont use anything at all because frankly, I am embarrassed to ask someone to use this for screen sharing.

On an aside, it is also clunky at best how you invite people who aren't on the global address list - you need to assume that a huge percentage of people that will try this product for the foreseeable future are going to want to use it like the other apps I mentioned which make adding people to a meeting intuitively easy like it should be which is you click add and it gives you the option of choosing from all your contacts and then emailing them an invite.