"In a worst case scenario, they can have project planning discovery in the CY2020 budget then have actual migration in their CY2021 budget for a 1H 2021 implementation." "To look on the 'brighter side': Microsoft is giving two years notice (rather than the 12 months they promise to give before shutting down an Office 365 service), and the timing allows customers with calendar-year budgets to get any migration projects into the CY2020 budget," Gaynor said, via e-mail. The two years is better than the 12 months advance notice Microsoft allots for itself, according to Jim Gaynor, research vice president for infrastructure and collaboration at Directions on Microsoft, a Kirkland, Wash.-based independent consultancy. "Over the last two years, we've worked closely with customers to refine Teams, and we now feel we're at the point that we can confidently recommend it as an upgrade to all Skype for Business Online customers," stated James Skay, a senior product marketing manager in Microsoft's Intelligent Communications Product Marketing Group, in Microsoft's announcement.Įssentially, organizations using Skype for Business Online have two years to move to Teams. However, Microsoft considers Teams to be good enough now for organizations to make the switch. Under Microsoft's Modern Lifecycle Policy, Microsoft is only required to give its Office 365 customers a 12-month advance notice that a service is getting discontinued if no successor product is available. The service is part of some Office 365 subscriptions. Skype for Business Online, introduced in 2014, is Microsoft's unified communications service, providing presence, voice-over-IP, messaging and videoconferencing capabilities. The online event, called "Demystifying Skype for Business to Microsoft Teams Migration," is scheduled for Monday, August 26 at 9:00 a.m. Update 8/1: Microsoft plans to hold a 1.5-hour public Web presentation on how to migrate to Teams. The Skype for Business Server version of the product will be sticking around because Microsoft acknowledged that many of its customers still "need to continue to use Skype for Business Server for some users or geographies due to their requirements," according to a FAQ document on the transition, dated July 30.
Users of Microsoft's Skype for Business Server product and the consumer Skype service aren't affected, the announcement assured.
Just the Skype for Business Online service will be getting axed. New Office 365 customers will get directed toward Microsoft Teams starting on Sept. Microsoft announced on Tuesday that it's planning to end its Skype for Business Online service on July 31, 2021, and it is encouraging customers to use the Microsoft Teams service instead.
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