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rahulpawar40
Copper Contributor
Aug 01, 2019

Migrate from Skype for Business to Teams

Hi,   We are discussing about migrating our users from Skype for Business-On premise to Microsoft Teams. Now, scenario is we have couple of hundred users working in Russia and as per Russian data l...
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ChrisWebbTech
MVP
Aug 01, 2019
Not sure you want to be in islands. If so your Russian users have access to Teams right now I believe. It’s usually always best practice if you plan to have interior between the two products is have it I. Skype only mode and work from there. How long have your users been in islands? Has anyone been logging in and using Teams yet? (Usage reports should show this if not sure)
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    rahulpawar40
    Copper Contributor
    Aug 01, 2019

    ChrisWebbTech,

     

    We don't want to be in islands. No Russian user don't have access to Teams(No Microsoft 365 services). We are in island mode for almost 1 year but not all users are using Teams(Usage report shows around 18 k have used Teams so far)

    not sure if I have understood the highlighted text.

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      ChrisWebbTech
      MVP
      Aug 02, 2019
      Ahhh, gotcha on the Russian accounts, thought they were in 365, my bad there.

      Check out this awesome video covering interop between the modes. Basically you need to home or convert your Island users that will be moving, to be homed / hybrid Skype Online mode in order to talk to Skype users from Teams since Teams with on-prem Skype users cannot talk to Skype users from Teams. The video explains all this really well!

      https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wEc9u4S3GIA

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        rahulpawar40
        Copper Contributor
        Aug 05, 2019

        ChrisWebbTech,

        Thank you for sharing this contents, I have gone through it. As per this video, it says that we have to migrate to Skype for business online for interoperability between Teams and Skype for Business-On premise. And as per the latest update from microsoft on 31st July 2019, that SFB Online will be retired on 31 July 2021. This youtube video was from Nov' 2018, is it still relevant as per latest update from Microsoft. Got confused about SFB Online, because we cannot migrate Russian users to SFB Online as per legal requirement russian users or contents can not be migrated to cloud and will remain on on-premise only.