Forum Discussion
Steve_Conn
Microsoft
Jul 18, 2017Discontinuation of support for Session Border Controllers in Exchange Online Unified Messaging
In July 2018, we will no longer support the use of Session Border Controllers (SBC) to connect 3 rd Party PBX systems to Exchange Online Unified Messaging (UM). We're making this change to provide ...
Samuel Bentrup
Jul 19, 2017Copper Contributor
This is a pretty big deal for us as well. We are a hybrid on premise Cisco Call Manager & Skype for Business on-prem w/ Enterprise voice. We were going to migrate all of our voicemail to Exchange UM from Cisco but now this is a halt and we have to revert users we just moved recently.
I agree with everyone else that 1 year timeline is surprisingly low for an enterprise. Our budget process has already occurred for next year, and now we'll have to insert a large add-on for voicemail. MSFT should give at least 2-3 years notice.
I would also like to see a statement of committment to on-prem Exchange UM or if they'll be abandoning that as well in future versions.
- Tim MaungOct 03, 2017Copper ContributorI agree.