The purpose of this page is to assist you with understanding your options, including basic operations and some limitations from Skype Meeting Broadcast and Skype for Business (remembering that Microsoft may change features or specifications at any time).
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Users of Skype Meeting Broadcast may select who may view the webcast in one of three ways:
Interactions (such as polling or group chat) in Skype Meeting Broadcast require use of a separate solution such as Yammer or Pulse.
Skype Meeting Broadcast does not have traditional webinar-type reports and includes the following information.
Reports may only be pulled by Event Team Members on the same domain. Reports do not include data points from separate solutions such as Yammer or Pulse. Correlating this information (such as if you wish to see all of one attendee's data and comments or votes in one place) requires manually combining separate data sources.
Video recordings of the webcast may be made and downloaded or shared online. It is useful to remember that
Finally, Organizers may enable machine-driven transcription and translation for auto-generating captions.
For troubleshooting alternatives, see that question on this page.
Technically, Skype Meeting Broadcast is a feature of Skype for Business (and is included in most licenses of Office 365 and Skype for Business Online). Functionality, however, it operates as an entirely separate product.
The table below illuminates key distingctions between Skype for Business and Skype Meeting Broadcast. (Note that there are more differences that what are outlined in this table).
| Feature | Skype Meeting Broadcast | Skype For Business | Notes |
| Polling | Add-on feature | Yes |
Microsoft suggests that Skype Meeting Broadcasts use a separate (external) tool like Microsoft Pulse. There results, therefore, are not part of your Skype for Business reports. Note that Skype for Business enables only a single-select, multiple choice option for polls. For other options (multi-select, drop-down menus, free-form text entry, etc.. consider EventBuilder) |
| Dial-in Audio |
No | Yes | Skype Meeting Broadcast only offers streaming (VoIP). |
| Reports | Yes | No | Skype Meeting Broadcast reports are minimal: to Skype Meeting Broadcast offers no option for pre-registration. |
| Videos (non-webcam) |
No | Yes | Skype for Business only allows for videos to be played if thay are embedded in PowerPoint. |
| Automatic recording access | Yes | No |
Skype for Business recordings are created and stored locally. Sharing required you to have a place to upload. Skype Meeting Broadcast recordings may be automatically shared in the cloud if you have and use Office 365 Video. |
| Ability to "rewind" in a live meeting | Yes | No | |
| IM | No | Yes | Rolling IM conversation via Skype - attendees can sea each other's questions |
| Scheduling via Outlook | No | Yes | Skype Meeting Broadcast is accessed through a separate URL. All creation and management of Skype Meeting Broadcast events and recordings are separate from the way you use Skype for Business. |
| Feature | Polling |
| Skype Meeting Broadcast | Add-on feature |
| Skype For Business | Yes |
| Notes |
Microsoft suggests that Skype Meeting Broadcasts use a separate (external) tool like Microsoft Pulse. There results, therefore, are not part of your Skype for Business reports. Note that Skype for Business enables only a single-select, multiple choice option for polls. For other options (multi-select, drop-down menus, free-form text entry, etc.. consider EventBuilder) |
| Feature | Dial-in Audio |
| Skype Meeting Broadcast | No |
| Skype For Business | Yes |
| Notes | Skype Meeting Broadcast only offers streaming (VoIP). |
| Feature | Reports |
| Skype Meeting Broadcast | Yes |
| Skype For Business | No |
| Notes | Skype Meeting Broadcast reports are minimal: to Skype Meeting Broadcast offers no option for pre-registration. |
| Feature | Videos (non-webcam) |
| Skype Meeting Broadcast | No |
| Skype For Business | Yes |
| Notes | Skype for Business only allows for videos to be played if thay are embedded in PowerPoint. |
| Feature | Automatic recording access |
| Skype Meeting Broadcast | Yes |
| Skype For Business | No |
| Notes |
Skype for Business recordings are created and stored locally. Sharing required you to have a place to upload. Skype Meeting Broadcast recordings may be automatically shared in the cloud if you have and use Office 365 Video. |
| Feature | Ability to "rewind" in a live meeting |
| Skype Meeting Broadcast | Yes |
| Skype For Business | No |
| Feature | IM |
| Skype Meeting Broadcast | No |
| Skype For Business | Yes |
| Notes | Rolling IM conversation via Skype - attendees can sea each other's questions |
| Feature | Scheduling via Outlook |
| Skype Meeting Broadcast | No |
| Skype For Business | Yes |
| Notes |
Skype Meeting Broadcast is accessed through a separate URL. All creation and management of Skype Meeting Broadcast events and recordings are separate from the way you use Skype for Business. |
Notice in the image "Skype Meeting Broadcast presenter interface" that while the look and feel is similar to Skype for Business, the controls are different (and there are fewer features as illuminated above).
As you see in this calendar view for Skype Meeting Broadcast, your broadcasts are managed in an entirely separate place. Results and reporting are neither accessible in a combined manner or in combination with other Skype for Business events or recordings you also use over the course of your webinar/webcast program(s).
There is no official reports for Skype for Business meetings. However, you may pull your conversation history (from Microsoft Outlook, not Skype for Business). What follows are both the steps to follow and a few important things to know:
Two important things to remember:
Skype Meeting Broadcast does not have traditional webinar-type reports. What information is available is captured in multiple places – a downloadable .csv and in Yammer or Pulse if you have used those for chat or polls. Note, too, that reports may only be pulled by Event Team Members on the same domain.
Data collected is limited to the following information:
It’s worth repeating: if you want all possible data, you’ll need to grab it from different places and manually combine it.
Remember, Skype Meeting Broadcast has no traditional pre-registration function, and consequently common webinar-type reporting to understand who registered, attended, registered-but-did-not-attend, etc. is not available.