Introduction to Upgrade from Skype for Business to Microsoft Teams (Upgrade part 1 of 4)

Part 1 of 4 of the Skype for Business to Teams upgrade series. Watch this Teams Academy video for IT Pros to get an Intro to Upgrade and learn about the experience in Teams only mode.

[@nageshkodli]

Very interesting.

[@wclinchtx]

Thank you ... very well done.

[@H4ram]

These video are great! I'm using them whilst studying for the ms-700 exam.

[@armanikenneth6757]

Instablaster

[@gwendalidot5139]

Do you know a good video on "Direct rooting" ?

[@Horinius]

Could you give the links to parts 2 to 4 in the description area, please?

[@my2fenders]

This talking about SFB Online upgrade to TEAMs ? These upgrade and comanaged options do not apply to SFB On prem or non O365 exchange Mailboxes (on prem exchange) ????

[@xaedowulf]

Would like to know as well

[@my2fenders]

It appears most of this is Skype ONLINE to Teams. Behavior (like indicators and integration) appear to only work if using Skype Online, not Skype on prem.

[@briansiefferman9516]

The video will need to be updated to reflect interop escalation for a Teams user sharing desktop with Skype for Business user. In the video they said this scenario isn't possible only vice versa. However, now you can actually do this and the same interop escalation experience happens where the user Teams user initiating the screen share with be put into a meeting and the Skype for Business user will receive a message in the chat with a link to the meet now meeting.

[@xaedowulf]

Good to know, thanks Brian

[@manik17994]

Can you share the PPT please

[@uhcel]

All the PPTs are here docs.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoftteams/itadmin-readiness

[@dancingkidkul9325]

@@uhcel Thanks for sharing this , its really great help

[@ztrojanek]

They're all complicated bullshit about nothing. We are a small SW company that works for several large corporate customers. We have been using MS Teams internally for many months. Our customers use heavily Lync Skype for Bussiness and they will not switch to Teams in terms dictated by Microsoft for us. I do not need and cannot create any implementation teams. All I need is the ability to communicate with corporate customers using Lync and Skype for Bussiness. Throughout the complex system of articles and videos, I miss a few simple questions: 1. Will the Teams client be able to work fully with Lync and SfB servers (including desktop and file sharing)? 2. If so, when? Why does Microsoft force me to switch to a communications client that is not a full-fledged SfB replacement? 3. If the Teams client is unable to perform node 1 functions, how do I communicate with Lync and SfB customers?

[@CoffeeintheCloud]

Hello and thank you for this feedback. Yes you can communicate with Lync and SfB customers via Teams. You can find more in our product documentation at aka.ms/SuccessWithTeams or reach out to our FastTrack teams that will help you with your technical deployment for free. I suggest you start with the Upgrade from SfB to Teams segment of the documentation which is here: docs.microsoft.com/en-us/MicrosoftTeams/upgrade-start-here