ARCHIVED: Privacy relationships in Microsoft Skype for Business
Use Microsoft Skype for Business to access Indiana University's UniCom service.
Office telephone service for faculty and staff at Indiana University has transitioned from Skype for Business to Teams Calls.
In Skype for Business, you control what information your contacts can see about you by setting their relationship to you. The table below indicates what contacts at each level can see. For Indiana University's Skype for Business system, Colleagues is the default level for IU-affiliated contacts.
To change a contact's privacy relationship, right-click the person's name in your contact list, move your mouse to
, and select from the five available levels.Information | Blocked Contacts | External Contacts | Colleagues | Workgroup | Friends and Family |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Presence appears as "Offline" | ✔Yes | No | No | No | No |
Presence | No | ✔Yes | ✔Yes | ✔Yes | ✔Yes |
Display name | ✔Yes | ✔Yes | ✔Yes | ✔Yes | ✔Yes |
Email address | ✔Yes | ✔Yes | ✔Yes | ✔Yes | ✔Yes |
Title | No | ✔Yes | ✔Yes | ✔Yes | ✔Yes |
Picture | No | ✔Yes | ✔Yes | ✔Yes | ✔Yes |
Work phone 1 | No | No | ✔Yes | ✔Yes | ✔Yes |
Mobile phone 1 | No | No | No | ✔Yes | ✔Yes |
Home phone 1 | No | No | No | No | ✔Yes |
Other phone 1 | No | No | No | No | ✔Yes |
Company | No | ✔Yes | ✔Yes | ✔Yes | ✔Yes |
Office | No | No | ✔Yes | ✔Yes | ✔Yes |
Work address | No | No | ✔Yes | ✔Yes | ✔Yes |
Meeting location | No | No | No | ✔Yes | No |
Meeting subject | No | No | No | ✔Yes | No |
Free/Busy | No | No | ✔Yes | ✔Yes | ✔Yes |
Working hours | No | No | ✔Yes | ✔Yes | ✔Yes |
Endpoint location | No | No | No | ✔Yes | ✔Yes |
Notes (out of office note) | No | No | ✔Yes | ✔Yes | ✔Yes |
Notes (personal) | No | No | ✔Yes | ✔Yes | ✔Yes |
Last active | No | No | No | ✔Yes | ✔Yes |
People assigned to the Workgroup level can interrupt you when your status is Do Not Disturb; they will see your status listed as "Urgent interruptions only".
To learn how to perform common tasks in Skype for Business, see Skype for Business help & learning.
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Last modified on 2023-07-12 14:16:39.