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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 ...
As one of the "small number of customers" affected by this, I am finding it hard to understand this decision and even harder to stomache the options. Looks like it's either migrate everyone from 3rd party PBX to Skype for Business Online, migrate them to on-prem Skype for Business, set up some sort of hybrid Skype for Business connection, or stop using Exchange UM. And do this all in 1 year. Wow...
I feel the same way - we were just about a week away from implementing an SBC and already purchased it (from AudioCodes). Now we have to go back to the drawing board to see what our options are.