It’s time to finally say goodbye to Skype for Business Online. Though the sunset date for the platform — July 31, 2021 — is quickly approaching, you still have time to get ready. However, there are some important things to think about when moving to whatever your replacement platform will be.

For most organizations, the logical next step is Microsoft Teams, and many of these organizations have already found new ways to take advantage of Microsoft Teams to collaborate over the past year. To help continue the push forward, here are three of the questions I hear most often from organizations that are planning to fully transition to Teams ― and my thoughts on how to best prepare.

In my earlier blog post about migrating to Microsoft Teams, I covered the variety of coexistence modes available to organizations as they consider their migration to this communication and collaborations platform. With many organizations needing to maintain both Skype for Business and Microsoft Teams for a period of time, it’s important to have some insight…

For many organizations, Skype for Business (formerly Lync, and before that, Communications Server) has been a staple communication and collaboration platform. This type of application — one that provides the ability to communicate quickly and effectively through instant messaging, check someone’s availability via presence status, place a phone call and spin up an ad hoc…

In my first post on the Surface Hub, I focused on potential new use cases for this hybrid devices. Then my second blog post in this series took a deeper dive into the Surface Hub’s features and how it compared to the competition. Now, I’m finally getting around to the question of whether this product is…

Some innovative technologies come onto the market without a clearly defined use case (or, perhaps, a clearly marketed one). They pull together features from other technologies and combine them in a new way. And while this hybrid isn’t a great fit for the original workplace settings it was pulled from, it offers opportunities for creating…

The end users of many on-premises and hosted Cisco Unified Communication customers have never been able to communicate natively from their Cisco Jabber clients to their third-party business partners who use Microsoft’s Lync or Skype for Business. It’s as if they were on opposite sides of a river with no “bridge” to cross, leaving them…