Skype for Business Online - End of Life - July 31, 2021
Today Microsoft announced that Skype for Business Online will be retiring on July 31, 2021. Though we didn’t know the exact date until today, we have been preparing for this for the past year and are ready to support you however we can as we work together to help you make this transition. We knew this was coming, we have been preparing for this for the past year, now we know the official date. We hope this does not come as a shock to you as MS Teams has taken center stage for Intelligent Communication and Modern Collaboration and Microsoft as an organization is not going to support Skype for Business (SfB) online in the long term. All of our investments and feature enhancements have been in Teams and Teams will continue to receive these investments for the future.
OneNote App or desktop Continued
Last August I started this conversation about whether the App (Not the Office desktop version) will be getting new features first: https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/Class-Notebook/One-Note-App-or-Desktop/m-p/97882#M141 I've been looking at the latest development here: https://blogs.office.com/en-us/2018/01/22/office-365-education-delivers-the-next-wave-of-innovation-for-inclusive-and-collaborative-learning/ And saw that you can now lock a page after marking it (the number 1 requested feature). The screenshot is of the App. I downloaded the latest classnotebook add-in and the lock page feature isn't there. Many teachers don't use the online version, and we've recommended that they don't. We also stopped using the App as it was causing problems, and so for us, the Office Desktop Onenote is our default product. So, as I suspected in August, we should now be using the App or Online versions to make use of these new features. Am I right? John
