We have many people like myself in the field that are fully trained and ready to help you every step of the way. If you are surprised by this announcement or maybe not surprised but more in shock because you are not prepared, don’t worry, Microsoft is prepared to support you in your efforts to move from SfB to Teams.

Record and share meetings via Stream with auto- transcriptionĬhat, call, share/edit files, and meet from your mobile deviceĭesktop, web, mobile audio and visual notificationsįor a deeper comparison and more technical look at SfB vs Teams please read this article. Persistent chat before, during, and after the mention people and like conversations In-meeting access to all chat features and files View and interact with calendar within application SharePoint Online file access and management Search for files, content, and mention people and groupsĬo-author auto-saved and auto-versioned files with others Persistent conversations with threaded replies See here for a feature comparison list of the primary features we hear from our users: If you are currently a SfB Online customer don’t worry MS Teams has all the features your users need to continue business continuity, Teams actually has more features and we have found the majority of our end users are more happy with the MS Teams experience over Skype. All of our investments and feature enhancements have been in Teams and Teams will continue to receive these investments for the future. We hope this does not come as a shock to you as MS Teams has taken center stage for Intelligent Communication and Modern Collaboration and Microsoft as an organization is not going to support Skype for Business (SfB) online for the long term.

We knew this was coming, we have been preparing for this for the past year, now we know the official date. Though we didn’t know the exact date until today, we have been preparing for this for the past year and are ready to support you however we can as we work together to help you make this transition. Today Microsoft announced that Skype for Business Online will be retiring on July 31, 2021.

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