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StConn-MSFT
Jul 18, 2017Microsoft
Discontinuation 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 ...
Tim Maung
Oct 03, 2017Copper Contributor
This highly impacts on organizations which are using third party enterprise telecomm systems. For those organizations, they've already invested on third party PBXs and SBCs and they are not as fast as to switch Skyype's enterprise voice for Exchhange online UM within a year. If they go with third party solutions like anynode, they will lose Exchange online UM features that areincluded in the Office 365 licnese bundle. MS should reconsider to support third party SBCs and/or postpone the discotinuation date to next couple of years.