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From Skype for Business to Microsoft Teams
On the Right Track
First came Office Communications Server, then the product was renamed Lync, and later Skype for Business Online – which will be discontinued at the end of July 2021. Until then, there will purportedly be no restrictions on its use. For this reason, all new Microsoft Office 365 customers started migrating to Microsoft Teams in September 2019. In this article, I show you how to migrate to Microsoft Teams.
Companies currently using Skype for Business Online can continue to add new users until it is phased out in 2021. However, as soon as Skype for Business Online is no longer available, the service's server, which in principle is still functional, will become orphaned from the Office 365 family. Administrators need to understand that the new Microsoft Teams [1] is not the next version of Skype for Business. Instead, Teams is a standalone product that offers new collaboration features and includes features from the SharePoint collaboration platform, OneDrive data management system, and Skype for Business meeting service. The right way to imagine Teams is to think of it as two products in one: a collaboration tool and a communication tool.
Teamwork Repositioned
As a collaboration product, Teams offers features similar to Slack that overlap and leverage the existing features of SharePoint, OneDrive, and the Yammer social network. Teams as a communication product offers many of the existing features of Skype for Business Server, which has always offered more possibilities than Skype for Business Online. Communication options include presence status, instant messaging, peer-to-peer calls, traditional phone calls, and audio and video conferencing. A "team" within Microsoft Teams describes a collection of people, content, and tools for different projects and outcomes within an organization. Teams can be set up so that only invited
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