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Microsoft End of Life 3rd Party PSTN Audio Conferencing (ACP) for Skype for Business Online April 1, 2019

Update 11/3/2019: The deadline has been extended to 2020. Update: 18/8/2019: The deadline has been extended to the end date of Skype for Business Online Service, 31st july 2021 At the same time as Microsoft seem to be getting more friendly with Telco’s providing user phone services for SfB Online and Microsoft Teams (ThinkTel and Telstra), they have decided to End of Life 3rd parties providing...

Office 365 will Enforce Mandatory use of TLS 1.2 from October 31, 2018, so Lync Phone Edition (which does not support TLS 1.2) will not be able to Connect to Skype for Business Online

16th April 2018 Update: Microsoft has now confirmed this in an official blog (which was an old blog that has been updated): “Office 365 will enforce TLS 1.2 later this year. Since the underlying operating system of LPE does not support TLS 1.2, LPE will not be able to connect to Office 365 anymore” ” Note this will affect connecting to Skype for Business Online, but also...

Skype for Business Server 2015 Mainstream Support ends 2020, SfBS 2019 Mainstream Support ends 2023, Extended Support for both end in 2025?

A colleague of mine Tobie prompted me to look at this a bit more closely. A few changes are being made with Office 2019 both client and Server. You have probably already heard Office 2019 client will be click to run only (no MSI) and Windows 10 only, but you may have missed the change in support timelines.   Understanding Microsoft Server Enterprise Support Model – Mainstream and Extended...

Telstra announces 3 User PSTN Calling Plans for Skype for Business Online and Microsoft Teams

Thanks to my friend Greig Sheridan for the Photo from the launch event. The news is now public that Telstra will be offering user phone number plans for Office 365 Phone System, i.e. Skype for Business Online and Microsoft Teams. It looks like it’s initially just for Office 365 tenants homed in Australia. This is a model where you buy Office 365 from Microsoft and buy your “user phone numbers and...

Skype for Business Server 2015 Cumulative Update March 2018 9319.516

The latest cumulative update for SfBS 2015 is here. Download: KB: This update enables Location-Based Routing to support the Skype for Business mobile clients. It also fixes the following issues: 4036626 Missing ApplicationOptions attribute in user object created by New-CsHybridApplicationEndpoint cmdlet in Skype for Business Server 2015 4078589 High memory usage on RtcHost.exe when you deploy...

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