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MicrosoftDiscontinuation of support for Session Border Controllers in Exchange Online Unified Messaging
Just to clarify, Is Microsoft allowing us to still deploy SBC to Exchange UM currently? (Specifically in the .EDU space) provided we are fully understanding that support will end in July 2018? The late disclosure of this after budgeting decisions and purchases have been made for the upcoming year is troubling.
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.
