{"id":119171,"date":"2019-08-12T13:00:27","date_gmt":"2019-08-12T12:00:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.licensingschool.co.uk\/licensing-blog\/?p=119171"},"modified":"2019-08-12T07:58:04","modified_gmt":"2019-08-12T06:58:04","slug":"notice-of-skype-for-business-online-retirement","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.licensingschool.co.uk\/licensing-blog\/2019\/08\/12\/notice-of-skype-for-business-online-retirement\/","title":{"rendered":"Notice of Skype for Business Online Retirement"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Microsoft\nannounce that Skype for Business Online will be retired on 31 July 2021.\nCustomers will be migrated to Teams between now and then, and starting 1\nSeptember 2019 new Office 365 customers will be onboarded directly to Teams.\nIt&#8217;s worth noting that this announcement doesn&#8217;t affect either the Skype\nConsumer service or Skype for Business Server. You can find the announcement\nhere: <a href=\"http:\/\/bit.ly\/2KreuaK\">http:\/\/bit.ly\/2KreuaK<\/a> with further\ndetails, including customer information on migrating to Teams. There&#8217;s also a\nlink to Forrester&#8217;s whitepaper: &#8220;The Total Economic Impact of Microsoft\nTeams&#8221;, or find it here: <a href=\"http:\/\/bit.ly\/33oWVPW\">http:\/\/bit.ly\/33oWVPW<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Microsoft announce that Skype for Business Online will be retired on 31 July 2021. Customers will be migrated to Teams between now and then, and starting 1 September 2019 new Office 365 customers will be onboarded directly to Teams. 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