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In this episode the team discusses the announcement of the retirement of Microsoft Exchange Unified Messaging (UM) for on-premises and cloud deployments. Exchange UM has been a staple for Microsoft voice services for on-premises deployments since 2007 and in the cloud with the induction of Office 365.

Microsoft is moving all the voice messages services to be hosted by Azure, listen below to get the details.

https://blogs.technet.microsoft.com/exchange/2019/02/08/retiring-unified-messaging-in-exchange-online/

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/SkypeForBusiness/plan/exchange-unified-messaging-online-migration-support

In this episode the team discusses:

Decommissioning of:

New features:

  • Contact Groups
  • Unified Presence
  • Contact Import
  • Skype for Business interop with Persistent Chat
  • Out of office support
  • Message Policies
  • Office 2019 x64 preview