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Skype for Business Online retires next month – how to prepare

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Jul 01, 2021
It’s been nearly two years since we first announced the July 31, 2021 retirement of Skype for Business Online. Hundreds of upgrade workshops and millions of successful Skype for Business Online to Te...
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Jul 12, 2021

Hello
Some time ago when I was working on a migration from Skype On Premise to Microsoft Teams, I asked a Microsoft consultant what would happen after the end of the Skype For Business Online services, knowing that the migration from Skype On Premise to Microsoft Teams uses the services of Microsoft Skype Online. At the time I was told that if the Skype Online services would stop on July 31, 2021, the migration from Skype On Premise to Teams would still be possible.
Reading your article I am not so sure. We are just starting a migration from Skype 2015 to Teams and we will probably not be finished before July 31 of this year.
If I try to understand between the lines, it seems that after July 31, 2021 it will not be possible to migrate from Skype 2015 On Prem to Microsoft Teams. Could you confirm or deny this point.

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Laurent TERUIN [MVP]