
The “ Plan Your Upgrade” sessions, available through March 31, are aimed at a wide audience of stakeholders. To help advise on the transition, Microsoft is offering a series of hourlong, interactive upgrade planning workshops that provide best practices and share key migration considerations.

Microsoft Planning Workshops Can Help with the Transition to Teams As FedTech reported, the Department of Homeland Security scaled out its Microsoft Teams videoconferencing capabilities to support a massive spike in remote work last year. The Defense Department has been supporting teleworking tools for more than 1 million users with its Commercial Virtual Remote Environment solution, which is based on the Teams platform. Many federal agencies have been using Microsoft Teams for some time now. To make the transition easier for organizations, Microsoft has rolled out a number of resources, including upgrade planning workshops free, instructor-led training and FastTrack onboarding assistance. That means agencies need to start planning a transition to an alternative videoconferencing platform, such as Microsoft Teams. Microsoft has said it will retire Skype for Business on July 31, after which the service will no longer be accessible.

In addition to thinking about how videoconferencing tools can be secured and enhance productivity, IT leaders at agencies across the federal government have one more thing to keep in mind: Skype for Business is about to go away.
