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MicrosoftDiscontinuation of support for Session Border Controllers in Exchange Online Unified Messaging
Does Option 3 require S4B Enterprise Voice to be active?
We have S4B on-prem, but only use it for IM/Presence. We are also one of the minority (just about to implement SBC's to support our move to O365), and Options 1/2/&4 are all problematic.
I'm in the same boat. Our primary voice platform is Cisco CallManager and we have SIP connect to on-premise Exchange Unified Messaging presently. We were trying to move that to Exchange Online (via an SBC) to accomodate moving our thousands of users to Exchange Online. Just bought the SBC. Just bought the subscription to SPE E3 so we could do all this. NOW we find out days later that they're dropping the SBC connection capability and don't have any other option (other than to upgrade to E5 so we can do Cloud PBX and drop our existing full phone system which would be millions of $ wasted).
Microsoft, what about options like Azure Voicemail - could you make that a viable transition or include that capability for your E3/SPE E3 customers that might have other IP PBX on-prem?
I do have a SfB on-premise environment but used primarily for IM/presence/conferencing. We could use that as an intermediary to get to Exchange Online UM (if that's even supported) but I can't just buy thousands of Enterprise Voice (EV) licenses for SfB either just to accomodate this thing. I'd rather not go full 3rd party voicemail either.
Thanks,
Chris