This new functionality has been called Cloud PBX and is comprised if a few different topologies and options. To recap Microsoft has begun providing voice service directly in Skype for Business Online to new and existing tenants of their Office 365 cloud offering. This can help clear up any confusion that long-time users of these phone may have, as well as provide a starting point for the various administration which may be completely new to these products as they move to the new voice capabilities provided in Office 365. Some of this content has already been made available in previous articles but is revisited here for the sake of providing a single referenceable article. This brief article reviews the basic requirements for each family of phones along with the few steps needed to successfully register a device. Direct registration support was just added to the new RealPresence Trio 8800 last month as introduced in the firmware release table here. This functionality was first added to the VVX IP handset models back in September 2015 as covered in this previous article.

Microsoft will bet on that holistic approach, as well as the lineup of new features, to lure current Skype for Business Online customers to Teams.As of the end of January 2016 many currently available Polycom IP handsets and conference phones are now supported with Skype for Business Online with Office 365. 'Customers can now use Teams for all of their communication, collaboration and productivity needs,' Waite said. 'It's a compelling value proposition. By integrating with Microsoft's other products and services, Teams further fortifies the company's dominance in enterprise technology.'

Teams comes to the collaboration market with the advantage of Microsoft's bundled approach to enterprise software. In 2018, Microsoft praised Teams as its fastest-growing app in history. In that time, Waite said, Teams has come 'a very long way,' reaching 13 million daily users and shooting past Slack's 10-million user milestone. 'They made that original announcement in 2017 without a deadline,' said Jud Waite, senior intelligence analyst, enterprise technology at CB Insights.

Skype for Business Online's phaseout in favor of Teams had been in the works for some time, but this is the first time Microsoft has shared a final sunset date.

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