
External or connected partner contacts (Federation) will be migrated as well, but will not be shown in the client (as things stand). Tenants with more than 500 users are not included in the Microsoft plan for the time being.Ĭontacts – like Skype for Business client settings or buddy lists – will be migrated from Skype to Teams. Microsoft will also upgrade voluntary test tenants in October, followed by all tenants with 500 users from November. Tenants without usage will be upgraded automatically from October onwards. This would be the largest customer group by far – so most of the questions relate specifically to this issue. This refers to the consent given in the CloudĪgreement to receive regular updates without the need for each one to be confirmed individually every time.

For customers/tenants with fewer than 500 users, Microsoft provides what it calls an “automatic process” upgrade.


The do-it-yourself upgrade: In this case the IT admins upgrade their own users to Microsoft Teams.But how exactly will the upgrade from Skype for Business to Teams take place? Microsoft offers the following three options:
