

The first step to change is getting your stakeholders onboard. In this simple five-step guide we will show you how to do just that and seamlessly transition from Skype for Business to Microsoft Teams.īefore upgrading from Skype for Business to Microsoft Teams you need to make everyone aware of the change. It’s about changing your behaviour and empowering your employees to become Teams gurus. Five steps to a seamless Microsoft Teams upgradeĮnsuring a successful transition is not just about changing the technology you use. To start benefiting from the capabilities of Microsoft Teams immediately, we’ve put together this guide to help ensure you have a smooth migration from Skype for Business to Teams. Skype for Business is now coming to End of Life on 31st July 2021, so it’s time to plan out how you’ll upgrade to Microsoft Teams. Microsoft Teams will bring together chats, meetings, calling, collaboration, app integration and file storage into one system. Avanzada 7 will also offer the update service to this new version.91% of the Fortune 100 use Microsoft Teams, so why not join them?īack in September 2017, Microsoft announced that Teams will build on the capabilities of Skype for Business. Move user upgrade: Used in case we can not interrupt the service and consists in installing a temporaty deployment of Lync 2013 where to host the users, services, endpoints and conferences while the update is done.Īt the end of 2018 the launch of Skype for Business 2019 is planned. The service would not be available during the update but it is the fatest way Offline upgrade: In this case, the servers with Lync 2013 automatically uninstalled Lync 2013 and installed Skype for Business 2015. If the updeate is to be made from Lync 2013 to Skype for Business we would use the option "in-place upgrade" in which we have two possible modes: Later, users, services and endpoints to the Skype infrastructure before decommissioning Lync 2010. If you want to upgrade from Lync 2010 to Skype for Business 2015, you would choose the "side-by-side migration" option, in which a new Skype for Business infrastructure is added to the Lync 2010 topology. With this service we offer the customer the possibility of updating their system from Lync 2010 or Lync 2013 to Skype for Business 2015.ĭepending on the needs of the client and the possibility or not of stopping the services, the appropiate way will be chosen to carry out the update correctly.
