IT Professionals:
Microsoft Teams telephony was rolled out to select OVPIT staff this week and will be coming to select departments and campuses in February 2023, and other departments as the spring progresses.
On January 31, UITS will migrate all Skype for Business clients that do NOT have a phone number assigned. After this transition, those clients will be unable to launch Skype.
Steps for IT Pros to prepare for the upcoming migrations:
- Please help us by making sure that Microsoft Teams is installed on all managed devices, and that clients are informed of how to install Teams on personal and mobile devices.
- Please help reinforce to faculty and staff that we’d like ALL chat communications to be happening in Teams, not Skype. This will help preserve conversation history and prevent issues as clients or departments are moved.
- Clients can continue to chat and call each other regardless of which platform they’re both on, but extended features (video call, screen shares) will require the participants to be on the same platform.
- There will be an infoshare (via MS Teams) about this transition on Tuesday, January 24, 2-3pm ET. Register for the infoshare in advance.
If you have questions, please contact unicom@iu.edu.
–IT Community Partnerships on behalf of UITS Teams Phone Migration Team