My biggest disappointment with the business version the fact that it is impossible to turn off the pop up notification when somebody logs in or out from Skype. Before you post me URL from the support website, non of them works, everybody in the office (10+ engineers) tried to disable this but no success. The only way you block that is to put yourself into do not disturb mode, but than non of the legitimate notifications are displayed either. Skype for business is a perfect distraction tool without providing any quality or functionality that other software already have. I just do not understand that in 2016 MS is at this level when it comes to user experience after being in the user facing software business over 40 years.
If that's Skype For Business, you've got somebody who set it up in a really bizarre way. It's such a clusterfuck of policies and settings that I'm not sure just where that would be set or what powershell gods you have to worship to straighten it out, but that's not the default out-of-the-box behavior.
The client is trash, though. Never understood why you can't run multiple accounts, or at least multiple instances without massive hoop-jumping. Aside from some reskins, it's the same as the Lync 2013 client, and that wasn't much of a change on the 2010, or even 2007 client.
As a Linux guy, I tried to setup Office365 OneDrive for the technologically illiterate side of the office, because they get 1TB. Set it up on a 7 computer, an 8.1, and a 10. Used the registry key to activate business accounts mode. Made an Office356 Group to have a shared directory. Looked at every alt menu and right click menu for shared directory options. Nobody could see anybody else's content no matter what I did. Then I spent 10 minutes setting up a NAS on a random PC and mounting it on all the other computers, used OneDrive on that PC and was good to go. I think I'll never use one drive, I've never had a sharing issue with any other cloud drive provider.
To echo shrikant, I also don't have this issue at my place of employment. Perhaps it's a setting at the administrative level? I can only agree with you that Skype for business is a pretty lackluster tool, and it's a real shame that the company I work for pays for it. To make things worse, there's apparently a separate, more expensive license required to do video/audio chat. This means that for remote meetings I have to not only sign in through SfB (for screen sharing and generally knowing who's in a meeting), but I have to use my desk phone to dial into a conference call. Yuck.
Do you mean Skype for Business aka Lync? We use SfB extensively at my workplace, and I don't see these log in/out notifications at all, even when I want to!
I found that very annoying as well. The way I found to turn the behavior off in Skype For Business 2016 is to individually right-click on each contact's name and then un-check "Tag for Status Change Alerts".
