Skype for Business Online

Skype for Business Online – Remember Skype for Business Online is being retired on July 31

As you should be aware, Skype for Business Online is being retired on July 31 2021. If you are still using Skype for Business Online and don’t have yet started your migration, now is a good time before it is too late. Good news if Microsoft is thinking about you and help you to keep […]

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Skype for Business Online –Reminder the Skype for Business Online administration portal is being retired

As announced few years ago and with the move from Skype for Business Online to Teams, the Skype for Business Online administration portal will be retired starting December 1st, 2020 Access to this administration portal (which you should probably did not access for quite a while anyway). Also as reminder the Skype for Business Online

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Teams – The Skype for Business PowerShell is no longer required

As an Office 365/Teams administrator, you know you need both the Skype for Business Online and Teams PowerShell modules. Well, good news this is no longer the case as the Skype for Business Online commands have been merged with the Teams PowerShell module (with the version 1.1.6) You can install the Teams PowerShell module using

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Skype for Business Online – Retirement scheduled for July 2021

It has been announced some time ago already, Skype for Business Online is being retired on July 31, 2021. After this date, Skype for Business Online (SfBO) will no longer be available or accessible. If you are using Skype for Business Online, you need to plan now your migration to Microsoft Teams. Between now and

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Skype for Business Online – External access settings being retired from the administration portal

As you may already know, it has been announced that Skype for Business Online will be retired from Office 365 on July 31, 2021. With this move, some administration capabilities are already being retired. The ‘External Access’ setting for Skype for Business in the Office 365 Administration portal, available in the ‘Settings\Services & add-ins\Skype for

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Skype for Business Online – Will be retired by July 31 2021

It has just been announced that Skype for Business Online (SfBO) will be retired by July 31 2021. Starting September 2019, new Office 365 tenant will be on-boarded directly to Microsoft Teams. This announcement has no impact for Skype (consumer) or Skype for Business On-Premises. You can get the complete announcement here https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/Microsoft-Teams-Blog/Skype-for-Business-Online-to-Be-Retired-in-2021/ba-p/777833?fbclid=IwAR0TvAbcRBZAnGm5fxpaEoYsaPvHfHyH1VyEMEE35AQ5tqAIwDH1elBiodc

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Skype for Business Online – 3DES support is going to be retired

A simple reminder that the 3DES cipher support for Skype for Business Online (SfBO) is going to be retired starting July 10th. If you are still using client using 3DES cipher (hopefully not) to connect to Skype for Business Online – like Lync 2010, Lync Phone Edition or Lync Mac 2011 – you will not

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Office 365 – 3DES cipher support is being retired by Feb 28, 2019

As Microsoft has announced it was moving to TLS 1.2, the 3DES cipher support is going to be removed by February 28, 2019. If you are not sure if this cipher is still being used by your organization to connect and access Office 365 services you can go to the Secure Score website (http://securescore.microsoft.com) and

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Office 365 – Microsoft is NO LONGER enforcing TLS 1.2

As you may have been aware as there has been quite lot of communication, Microsoft was planning to disable TLS 1.0 and 1.1 support for Office 365 services. Well, it seems this is longer the plan as per the updated KB 4057306 (https://support.microsoft.com/en-gb/help/4057306/preparing-for-tls-1-2-in-office-365) – as per the extract below: Note This doesn’t mean Office 365

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Office 365 – Reminder to move to TLS 1.2

UPDATE Oct 26th, 2018 – Microsoft is delaying the enforcement http://bit.ly/2D5uv3p A quick reminder as the date is fast approaching: you must have moved to TLS 1.2 before October 31, 2018 It has been announced about a year ago (October 2017), all client-server and browser based communication with Office 365 services will use TLS 1.2

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