I pass through my audio and microphone to the VM. This is also how I use MS office 2016 on Linux.Īll I do is use VirtualBox to create a Windows 10 VM with a little bit of RAM and 2 CPUs and install Skype4B + Office on it and Outlook online to get emails, calendar and links to Skype4B meetings. OK so this is a work-around but it works surprisingly well for me as I very rarely need to share my Linux host screen, or if I do, then its just a MS Office doc which is easy to share within VM.
For a long time I have used the method below to run MS software. But some corporations could be over a decade slow in upgrading (many still use Lync 2007!). Good news is that MS is replacing Skype4B with MS Teams which has a web and native Linux binary already. The other nail in the coffin is that MS will reportedly discontinue Skype4B support in mid 2021. 
Skype4B was always just a renamed version of the very old Microsoft Lync software which works totally differently to Skype regular (which was originally a separate company later purchased by MS). 
The software is "Skype" by brand name only, and has nothing to do with regular Skype which already works on Linux. It's annoying, but I am almost certain MS will never make Skype4B available on Linux. Here is my latest advice about running Skype4B aka Lync on Linux:
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