Oct 13 2016 09:43 AM
Hi trying to get on to this public preview, I have been in the requested state for 14 days now - any idea how this should progress?
Oct 13 2016 11:27 AM
Hi Simon,
We are working on onboarding customers over the next few weeks. As long as you have signed up on the portal, you will receive an email on next steps.
Hope this helps.
Oct 18 2016 08:24 PM
We're in a similar positon and eagerly awaiting!
Oct 18 2016 09:36 PM
Appreciate your patience! We've started onboarding customers already and we onboard them in phases. So long as you're signed up on the www.skypepreview.com portal and match the criteria, you will be notified on next steps.
Oct 20 2016 10:27 AM
Oct 31 2016 06:47 AM
we signed up over 30days ago, no email received for "next steps" other than were reviewing it... it's a real basic feature that should've been ready on day 1 imo.
Oct 31 2016 06:51 AM
I understand your frustration.
We are onboarding customers in phases, as mentioned. Currently US cloud customers are being onboarded and hybrid customers will follow. Other regions will follow shortly after that.
Oct 31 2016 11:53 AM
Nov 01 2016 06:52 AM
Hi Geoffrey,
We are in the same boat, have been using Zaplee with Skype, but at 14 people we need more features.
Which alternate suppliers are you looking at, cheeky to ask but I have been holding out for this now many months and I am getting some serious flak at work for it, however just can't make head nor tail of how to connect it to Cloud PBX easily.
Simon
Nov 02 2016 07:19 AM
Nov 03 2016 12:35 PM
Nov 03 2016 07:54 PM
Saranya - I see you have a lot of eager new users to get onboarded. Looking forward to it in the near term.
For everybody else, as Microsoft Partners, we utilize our internal use E3 licenses, and I added Cloud PBX and PSTN Calling licenses to my personal E3 license to demo the service first hand. I absolutely love it. It's been working flawlessly for months now using it with the Skype for Business client for Windows and the Skype for Business mobile app for iOS. Our company is currently using Vonage for voice services/dial tone (VoIP) and we use Polycom VVX 600's as our desk phones. I went ahead and flashed the firmware on my VVX 600 last week and connected it to my Office 365 account and it has been working just as flawlessly. Setup was super easy as well and it interfaces miraculously with Office 365 (calendar, contacts, directories, etc.) As soon as this auto-attendant feature goes live, if it performs just as well (or at least close as well) as the Skype for Business Cloud PBX and PSTN Calling have thus far, we're going to migrate our current Vonage services over to Microsoft, as well as that of our clients. It'll be like shooting fish in a barrel.
I personally have an extensive background in telecom in conjunction with my IT skill sets, and can honestly say through experience that if all goes well with this auto-attendant role out, we will have "finally" achieved the "Holy Grail" in telecom. I personally have been waiting a long time for this. Come on Microsoft, make it happen!
Nov 14 2016 12:54 PM
Nov 14 2016 02:26 PM
Hi @Geoffrey Plank, I've taken a look at your application and will follow up with you offline regarding its status for the Org AA program. Thanks.
Nov 15 2016 01:19 PM
I am in the same boat, although signed up a little bit later. It would be fantastic if we could get approved for this. We recently moved to another cloud pbx provider, and it's been a disaster. I would love to be able to move our system entirely to Cloud PBX at some point in the near term, but really need to evaluate these features. If there's anything that can be done to accelerate our acceptance, let me know!
Nov 17 2016 02:02 AM
Requested participation on 08/22/2016.
We have 60 users, Cloud PBX with on-premise CCE. We have been waiting for this as it means we don't have to put another IVR system in place, but after 3 months waiting we now possibly need to do this as management is getting frustrated.
Would be nice to get some indicitave timelines as to when we could expect to be accepted.
Nov 17 2016 10:56 AM
@Bill Hoffman I'll follow up with the status of your application offline.
Nov 18 2016 06:59 AM
We are in the same boat. Eager to get started, but no communication. Please check on the status of our application as well.
Thanks!
Nov 18 2016 04:40 PM
Thanks, Saranya, for following up with me about my situation. You indicated that I have only three users and this is not enough to qualify for the Org AA Preview.
However, may I point out that a minimum number of users is not listed a one of the qualifications on the Preview site (https://www.skypepreview.com).
This is what is listed:
Qualifications
So, from this description, three would be enough to qualify. If the description is incorrect, please tell me what the minimum is required to quality.
Thank you,
Geoffrey
Nov 21 2016 11:44 AM - edited Nov 21 2016 11:45 AM
I received the welcome email today. I have only 2 users wit PSTN currently, but this is because AA was not available and it would not have made sense to pay E5 licenses for everyone, plus cloud pbx licenses with our old provider. Either way, apparently applications with only 2 users were honored.