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Steve_Conn
Microsoft
MicrosoftDiscontinuation of support for Session Border Controllers in Exchange Online Unified Messaging
In July 2018, we will no longer support the use of Session Border Controllers (SBC) to connect 3 rd Party PBX systems to Exchange Online Unified Messaging (UM). We're making this change to provide ...
You can if you set it up before July 2017 I think... otherwise, no. If you had it set up before, you can continue to operate until 2018. If you haven't started yet, the option shouldn't be there anymore.
Actually, there's nothing preventing customers from deploying SBC integration solutions up until the day the SBCs are decommissioned in Office 365. There's no mechanism to surface a warning to customers that the SBCs are being decommissioned, so hopefully customers will see the notifications posted in the O365 Message Center.
I stand corrected, thank you EXPTA. I swear I remember that the creation of new IP Gateways was blocked after July. I must have dreamed that.
No worries. I had to check with Steve_Conn directly on that.