Transition to Microsoft Teams
On July 30, 2019, Microsoft announced that July 31, 2021 will mark the official retirement of Skype for Business Online at which time access to and support for the service will end. This news reflects Microsoft’s focused investment in Microsoft Teams, expanding on capabilities in Skype for Business Online by bringing together calling, chat, meetings, and Office 365 and third-party productivity apps in single, intelligent hub. The richer functionality of Microsoft Teams enables organizations to move faster and collaborate more efficiently, and replaces Skype for Business Online as the core communications client for Office 365.
With the focus of helping customers transition from Skype for Business Online to Teams, as of September 1, 2019, no new tenants will be on-boarded to Skype for Business Online. Customers actively using Skype for Business Online will still be able to add new users to their tenant. While many organizations across the globe have successfully upgraded to Teams, the July 31, 2021 retirement provides 24 months for remaining Skype for Business Online customers to make the transition. To maximize the economic and cultural benefits Teams brings, we encourage you to begin planning you upgrade today.
Skype Consumer and Skype for Business Server (on premise) services will not be impacted by the retirement of the Skype for Business Online service and current Skype for Business Online customers should expect no change in the quality service up to its retirement date.
HPE has long track record of Microsoft communication and collaboration platform deployments and migrations. We would like to share with you the key reasons we identified during our recent projects, where customer organizations decided to select Microsoft Teams as the communication and collaboration platform of choice.
HPE believes that building a modern communication and collaboration solution is not just another telephony and workspace migration, but it is a true transformation.
The HPE Transformation Services for Microsoft Teams offering spans across all parts of the communication and collaboration platform transition from the legacy infrastructure to the solution supporting the digital workplace of the future.
HPE is fully aware that many Microsoft partners provide a similar offering to the HPE Transformation Services for Microsoft Teams. However HPE has an additional unique value proposition that differentiates us from the other service providers and integrators. We have in our DNA, the belief that the customer’s success is also our success and from that perspective we would like to share with you some information about the additional capabilities that can enhance the communication and collaboration solution and support its successful transformation.
Please let me know your availability for time to connect and discuss how we can support your business and the transition to Microsoft Teams.
Please Contact Tony Nunn ([email protected]) who can support you through this transition.