Microsoft have confirmed that Skype for Business will be retired. To ensure the university is using supported applications, we will be retiring Skype for Business from our application offering by August 2020.
As a replacement service for Skype for Business, the Office 365 application, Teams, is available to all staff and students. This includes all of the current functionality of Skype for Business. Microsoft Teams is available to all staff and students as part of Office 365.
This change only relates to Skype for Business, linked to your University account, it does not affect personal Skype accounts that you may use.
To ensure staff know how to use Microsoft Teams as the replacement for Skype for Business we are running a number of seminars.
Select the relevant link below to book your place on the next training session:
O365 Teams – Migrating from Skype for Business to Teams
O365 Teams Overview for managers – what will Teams do for your teams?
O365 Teams Getting started – Getting started with chat and virtual meetings
Many of our colleagues are already using Teams. Here’s what a couple of them have been telling us:
For more information on Teams, please visit: O365 Help Centre
