{"id":7927,"date":"2021-07-06T09:36:26","date_gmt":"2021-07-06T13:36:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.technewsday.com\/?p=7927"},"modified":"2021-07-23T13:51:06","modified_gmt":"2021-07-23T17:51:06","slug":"microsoft-urges-skype-for-business-users-to-shift-to-teams","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/microsoft-urges-skype-for-business-users-to-shift-to-teams\/","title":{"rendered":"Microsoft Urges Skype For Business Users To Shift To Teams"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Microsoft has continued to urge customers of Skype for Business Online to shift to Microsoft Teams, its relatively new business communications platform, as the deadline for the platform&#8217;s retirement, which is scheduled for July 31, approaches.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In a blog post, the Microsoft Teams department said: &#8220;With a month before service retirement, we encourage remaining Skype for Business Online customers to continue transitioning users and workloads to Teams.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>While Microsoft sent reminders to users in February and April, the tech giant will offer supported upgrades in August for customers who have not yet moved into teams.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Assistant upgrades will be available in two types that cater to organizations that use Skype for Business Online-only and Skype for Business Online users in a hybrid environment.<\/p>\n\n\n<p>For more information, read the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.zdnet.com\/article\/using-skype-for-business-online-get-ready-to-say-goodbye-to-it-soon\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">original story<\/a> in ZDNet.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Microsoft has continued to urge customers of Skype for Business Online to shift to Microsoft Teams, as the deadline for the platform&#8217;s retirement is scheduled for July 31.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[57],"tags":[62],"class_list":["post-7927","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-companies","tag-microsoft"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7927","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7927"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7927\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7959,"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7927\/revisions\/7959"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7927"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7927"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7927"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}