
Instead, Microsoft provides detailed advice and tools for customers who want to update their Skype for Business users to teams.īusinesses are encouraged to begin the migration to teams with less than a year left before the deadline, while you still have some time left.Ģ021 is the year that Microsoft no longer allows Skype for Business online. If you do not take any action at all, what will happen? It is important to remember that not all the tenant’s Skype for Business users be automatically switched to Microsoft Teams.įor companies, Microsoft currently does not provide a scheduled update, except for smaller customers that may not have devoted IT resources. About why? Teams now endorse all of the online functionality of Skype for Business: texting, meetings, and calling. Microsoft recommends instead that customers of Skype for Business Online upgrade to Microsoft Teams. Unlike the end-of-life Windows 7, Microsoft does not provide extended support updates this time around. Microsoft will fully switch off Skype for Business Online on July 21, 2021.

Microsoft revealed the end of life for Skype for Business Online back in July of 2019.

Microsoft Skype for Business End of Life Announcement
