Switch to Skype for Business from Hangouts Meet

Screen sharing

• Share desktop

• Share program

• Present screen

• Present window

Video call controls

• Mute/unmute

• Remove from call

• Gallery, Speaker, Content, and Compact views

• Mute/unmute

• Remove from call

Meeting notes

• Meeting note-taking through interoperation with OneNote

  • Add shared notes to a meeting request. Attendees can view or edit OneNote meeting notes.

  • Take notes on your own to add your private, personal notes to the meeting that aren’t visible to others.

• Meeting note-taking is not natively available in Hangouts Meet. Note-taking requires a separate application.

Whiteboard

• Annotations tools

  • Type notes

  • Draw

  • Erase

  • Point

  • Import images to shared whiteboard

• Download whiteboard permissions

  • Owner

  • Presenters

  • Anyone

• No native whiteboard capabilities. Whiteboarding functionality requires an additional application.

Polling

• Polling integrated into Skype for Business.

  • Presenters can use polling to gather anonymous responses from participants.

  • Presenters can see the results and can either hide the results or show them to all attendees.

• No native polling capabilities in Hangouts Meet. Polling requires a separate application.

Q&A manager

Provides a structured environment for answering questions during a meeting. One presenter can answer questions while another presents meeting content.

No native Q&A capabilities in Hangouts Meet. Polling requires a separate application.

Meeting participants

Up to 250 participants.

If you have G Suite Enterprise you can host a Hangouts Meet video meeting for up to 30 participants.

If you have G Suite Basic and Business, you can host a Hangouts Meet video meeting for up to 25 participants.

Dial-in conferencing

Dial-in access to Skype for Business meetings is available in 90+ countries.

Dial-in access to Hangouts Meet meetings is available inthe United States.