1. Migrating from SfB to Teams
Craig Chiffers
@cchiffers
#SydneyUC

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6. situation Goals, advantages & caveats

7. Skype for Business with Team collaboration only via teams
Situation: > Skype for Business deployment with requirements that aren’t yet met by Teams (for example, advanced compliance)
Goal: > Adopt Teams Quickly – Collaboration Only. All other modalities reside in Skype for Business.
Advantages: > No overlapping capabilities between Teams and Skype for Business. > Instant messaging and chat will reside in Skype for Business (tied to calling).
Caveats: > None!

8. Skype for Business with Team collaboration and meetings
Situation: > Skype for Business deployment with significant use of enterprise voice and requirements that aren’t yet met by Teams calling (such as a third party meeting service).
Goal: > Start Teams adoption quickly, going beyond group collaboration. > Improve your users’ meetings experience.
Advantages: > No overlapping capabilities
Caveats: > Instant messaging and chat will reside in Skype for Business (tied to calling)

9. Islands – the default and recommended option
Situation: > Smaller or simpler Skype for Business deployment.
> Ability and willingness to manage some short-term complexity to move to Teams more quickly.
Goal: > Go to the full Teams experience as quickly as possible. > Conduct a proof of concept (PoC) of Teams.
Advantages: > Simple to operate, no interoperability.
> Best Teams experience up-front for all capabilities.
Caveats: > Requires good user communication to avoid confusion and to drive usage toward Teams. > Exit strategy requires users to have fully adopted Teams by the time Skype for Business is decommissioned.

10. Teams only
Situation: > Some users need to stay on Skype for Business. > You’re upgrading your Skype for Business Online users to Teams while keeping Skype for Business on-premises users on Skype for Business Server. > You’re ready to retire Skype for Business.
Goal: > Reduce variable costs on Skype for Business (on-premises server operations, outsourcing contract, and so on). > Go to the full Teams experience as quickly as possible, for at least some users.
Advantages: > Limits user confusion by providing only one client to work with.
Caveats: > Interoperability only supports basic chat and calling between Skype for Business and Teams

11. Skype for Business only
Situation: > Users need to stay on Skype for Business.
Goal: > Limit user confusion by providing only one client to work with.
Advantages: > Continue to meet business requirements that currently can only be met by Skype for Business.
Caveats: > Interoperability only supports basic chat and calling between Skype for Business and Teams.

12. Upgrade journeys

13. SIMPLE UPGRADE

14. GRADUAL UPGRADE

15. Decision Point
Which upgrade journey is suitable to your organization's business requirements?

16. Upgrade SCENARIOS

17. Pure Skype for business online – move now*
Deployment Model: Skype for Business Online–only with Calling Plans
Journey: Messaging roadmap: Federation feature targeted for release Q2 of 2018 Meetings roadmap: Features you want are already available Calling roadmap: Features you want are already available
Building Blocks:
> Skype for Business with Teams collaboration–only mode
> Teams-only mode

18. CCE Deployed – deploy direct routing
Deployment Model: Skype for Business Online with Cloud Connector Edition (CCE)
Journey: Messaging roadmap: Features you want are available Meetings roadmap: Future requirements can be met Calling roadmap: Direct routing to Teams feature targeted for release Q2 of 2018
Building Blocks:
> Skype for Business with Teams collaboration and meetings mode
> Teams-only mode

19. Skype for Business Hybrid with 365 – many options
Deployment Model: Skype for Business Hybrid
Journey: Messaging roadmap: Features you want are available Meetings roadmap: Cloud meeting recording, meeting room devices feature targeted for release Q2 of 2018 Calling roadmap: Features you want are available
Building Blocks:
> Skype for Business with Teams collaboration–only mode
> Skype for Business with Teams collaboration and meetings mode
> Islands mode
> Teams-only mode

20. Skype for business on premise only – upgrade to sfb 2019
Deployment Model: Skype for Business Server (on-premises)
Journey: Configure Skype for Business hybrid (split domain) Messaging roadmap: Federation feature targeted for release Q2 of 2018 Meetings roadmap: Federated meeting-join, PSTN lobby feature targeted for release Q2 of 2018 Calling roadmap: Feature targeted for release Q4 of 2018 and onward
Building Blocks:
> Any of the 5 modes!
Investigate upgrade to Skype for Business Server 2019

21. NEXT STEPS

22. Resources

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