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Skype for Business Future ?
A partner company indicated his new accounts all required Teams to use Skype.
his "new" users, when signing in for the first time received a message "Your organization is now using Microsoft Teams!" and would not allow them to sign into Skype.
Will "Skype for Business" be retained or are we being forced to use Teams?
We are in the Cloud with Office 365 Tennant space, no On premise Skype servers.
David
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David Kamp yes, Teams is the upgrade to Skype for Business.
At the moment all organisations can choose if they want to upgrade to Teams Only. For smaller organisations <500 users Microsoft are notifying admins that they are to be upgraded, but allowing them an opt out.
Overtime they will push to bigger organisations, and perhaps become more insistent on people upgrading. Officially there is no deadline set, people move with consent as they want the new capability.
We may be Forced to go to a third party Chat program.
Teams is too big of a Security and Support issue for our limited staff.
Are others opposed to Teams?
David
David Kamp In what way is it a security risk ? It meets and exceeds the controls in Skype for Business.
I've not heard of anyone else considering anything else, it's a very positive upgrade to a far more modern platform.
