'How would you like to join your meeting?' web page when joining a Skype for Business meeting When you click to join a meeting on a Mac, you will see this screen in your browser: The app has also been optimized to work well with macOS 10.14 (Mojave), including Dark Mode. Screen sharing from the Mac uses Video-based Screen Sharing (VbSS), which is faster and more reliable than Remote Desktop Protocol (RDP) used by SMA. The meeting experience is built around a larger and more immersive display of video and shared content.
The desktop app brings many advantages over SMA: Screen sharing, audio, and video are significantly more reliable. (If your server is not configured to use the online CDN, there is no change to your experience.) The change applies to meetings that are hosted on Skype for Business Online or on Skype for Business Server 2015 that is configured to use the Microsoft Content Delivery Network (CDN).
As promised, we have rolled out the change to use Skype for Business desktop app on Mac as our web-downloadable meetings client instead of Skype Meetings App (SMA)!
