The free minutes support both mobile phones and landlines in some countries and only landlines in others.īoth landlines and mobiles in Canada, China, Guam, Hong Kong SAR, Puerto Rico, Singapore, Thailand, and United States That being said, I suspect you are calling a country or a number that is not covered by your subscription. When you sign in to Skype, your free 60 minutes should automatically be activated. Now, you can start using your Skype minutes to stay in touch with family and friends worldwide.
To activate your Skype minutes, sign in with your Microsoft account at /myaccount.Ĭhoose Activate your Skype minutes (I don't see this button anywhere.) This means that every month, you can use Skype to call landlines in more than 60 destinations worldwide,Īnd mobile phones in select countries and regions. Skype provides free, unlimited Skype-to-Skype calls.Īnd your Microsoft 365 Family Home subscription comes with 60 Skype minutes. I also tried to activate my skype calling. I can still call on the phone if I pay for skype credit. So, I don't think it is because I am in South Korea. I still didn't see any notification for getting my 60 minutes of calling. So, I tried to turn on my VPN and check if that was the reason why it wasn't working. I live in South Korea however, my skype account is registered in the USA. I want to add one more thing after research. I guess my question is if there is a button in skype that I should press for it to allow me to use the free 60 minutes? Additionally, I tried calling after 5 minutes the app will not allow the phone call to connect. Then, it asks me if I would like to buy a phone plan. I am currently logged into my Microsoft 365 account on skype, and it says, "Talk free for 5 minutes." After those 5 minutes, the phone disconnects. On that account, I get 60 free minutes for skype every month.
To download the 5.4.0A software, go to the Polycom support page for Polycom® UC Software for Microsoft Deployments.I have a Microsoft 365 account. For a complete list of the feature enhancements in UCS 5.4.0A, download the latest Polycom UC Software Feature Summary. Other enhancements in this software release support the ability to use and manage VVX phones in Office 365 environments. When it comes time to migrate users, the new Office 365 User Migration feature allows administrators to migrate user information from a Lync on-premises solution to an Office 365 on-line solution (or vice versa). Another enhancement allows existing VVX phone features like access to calendars, message waiting indicators, and synchronized call logs to work with Exchange Web Services for Office 365. Administrators can also directly manage phone configuration settings in the Web Configuration utility through BToE.
Administrators can install the BToE application to the user’s computer with a single download package.
Better Together over Ethernet (BToE) is now easier to install. Polycom introduces features in 5.4.0A that improve the user experience and make phones easier to provision and manage with Office 365 Cloud PBX deployments running Skype for Business Online. While some might refer to 5.4.0A unofficially as Polycom’s “Office 365 software release”, 5.4.0A is also the first “Polycom supported” software release for VVX phones deployed on Skype for Business Server 2015 (on premises). As the Office 365 Cloud PBX “preview” currently underway expands to include phones, the Polycom VVX phones being deployed will be running UCS 5.4.0A. In March 2015, Microsoft and Polycom announced that “Polycom’s VVX business media phones will be the first phones to support PSTN calling in Office 365”. It’s here-UC Software 5.4.0 Rev A (UCS 5.4.0A)-the Polycom software many Microsoft voice customers have been waiting for.