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Skype for Business Online Plan 2 standalone is being retired from sale July 1st, 2019

Skype for Business Online Plan 2 is being retired from sale as of July 1, 2019. If you are using any of these licences, you will receive an Office 365 message centre message. When your SfB Online Plan 2’s expire at the end of your current term, in order to have continued access to these features, you’ll have to switch to a different plan. SfB Online Plan 2 was an Office 365 SKU which just...

Latest CQD V3 (Call Quality Diagnostics) is now available to test in all Office 365 tenants

The Call Quality Dashboard (CQD) for Microsoft Teams and Skype for Business Online allows you to gain insights into the quality of calls made using Microsoft Teams and Skype for Business services. The current CQD (CQD v2) is at . CQDv3 is at the new URL: Ignite 2018 session BRK3169, Understanding calling usage and diagnosing call failures in Microsoft Teams (recording, blog), gave some good...

In Teams Only, Skype for Business always prompts Join Meeting Audio choice

When a user moves into Teams Only mode, the Skype for Business client becomes a “Meeting Join Only” client, meaning it can join meetings but is no longer a calling or instant messaging client. This is how it launches: And if you click “Start Skype for Business” you get a client that only shows history and upcoming meetings: If you join a meeting from the meeting tab or, more likely, from a link...

Scheduling a Skype for Business Meeting in Teams Only Mode with Skype for Business Web Scheduler

Update: Chris Hayward totally beat me to this blog but I missed it, check out his blog here. Great blog to follow. When you put a users account into Teams Only mode, they can only schedule Teams meetings from Outlook: This is the expected behaviour and should be fine, but there is a little workaround if for some reason you needed to Schedule a SfB meeting. Skype for Business Online Web Scheduler...

Updated: Skype for Business Server 2019 is supported on Virtualisation

23rd July 2019 Update. Thanks to Corbin Meek, Senior Supportability Program Manager – Teams and Skype for Business at Microsoft for reaching out with an update/clarification. SfB Server 2019 us supported on virtualisation, see details here: Clarifying Support for Skype for Business Server 2019 Virtualization ################ I was doing some research after a customer asked if they could put SfB...

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