People are working from the frontline, from home, on the move and in the office. Will your on-premise communication needs evolve? Especially if you’re a security-conscious organisation that would rather trust itself than an unencrypted vendor-controlled cloud solution.ģ. Do you really need to keep communications on-premise? It’s time to move and there are better alternatives out there.Ģ. Does Skype for Business Server have a convincing product roadmap? In fact, we’ve honed it down to just five questions you need to ask yourself.ġ. There’s a whole new breed of on-premise communications platforms out there, but narrowing them down needn’t take long. So the bottom line is: you need to find an on-premise alternative to Skype for Business Server.

The bummer is, if you’re on Skype for Business Server 2019 you know you’ll have to migrate to something by the end of 2023 or face the horrors of (an unusually shortened two year only) Extended Support contract. It's passed on! This platform is no more! It has ceased to be! It's expired and gone to the Teams cloud! It's a stiff! Bereft of life, it rests in peace! If it weren’t for Extended Support it'd be pushing up the daisies! It's deprecated! It's kicked the bucket, shuffled off its server, run down the curtain and joined the bleedin' choir invisible!! SFB is as dead as its Twitter account. Skype for Business Twitter feed last updated mid 2018 Beyond that it’s outdated as its Twitter feed. If you need to keep your communications on-premise, just about the only reason to migrate to Skype for Business Server 2022 is that it isn’t cloud-based Microsoft Teams. That’s Microsoft’s intended migration path for you. Skype for Business Server 2022 is the last throw of a loaded dice that always lands on Microsoft Teams. On-premise communications might be your priority, but it clearly isn’t Microsoft’s. Skype for Business is pining for the fjords.

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