

Cloud Voicemail also adds additional countries to its regulatory compliance list making the technology available to more customers. Cloud Voicemail also supports Microsoft voice architectures including Phone System, Calling Plans, and Direct Routing meaning it works great today and is ready for tomorrow’s innovations. As we update Cloud Voicemail, all customers benefit regardless of platform. Being native to the cloud allows for a single support model for all voice modalities including Skype for Business on-premises, Skype for Business Online, and Microsoft Teams. It harnesses additional modern platform services such as Cortana, Graph, and AI to enhance those core experiences. Cloud Voicemail uses Azure services based in the Microsoft Global Network to provide flexibility and scalability. The benefits of Cloud Voicemail are many. Customers using this topology must upgrade to Skype for Business Server prior to Februfor continued voicemail support via Cloud Voicemail. Lync 2010 Servers connected to Exchange Online Unified Messaging will not be transitioned or supported with Cloud Voicemail.

Please remember that final retirement date is February 28, 2020. Customers who have received a transition notification and would like to request postponement can do so by submitting a request via the support tool in the Office 365 Admin Portal. The experience for each customer will be transparent – Microsoft will switch your users over to Cloud Voicemail and perform the necessary validation and testing. The first group of customers will be notified in February 2019 and then can expect to be transitioned in March 2019. Over the course of this calendar year, we will selectively notify customers via the Office 365 Message Center of their coming transition. The transition timing will vary depending upon how your company has utilized the UM features. Storage of voicemails will continue to be supported in Exchange Online and Exchange on-premises Servers.Ĭustomers using the above-mentioned servers to connect to Exchange UM Online will be transitioned to Cloud Voicemail by Microsoft. Please note this announcement refers to Unified Messaging which is the processing of voicemails and Auto Attendant in Exchange Online. The following servers connecting to Exchange UM Online will be transitioned by Microsoft to Cloud Voicemail on or before February 28, 2020:

This impacts voicemail processing and Auto Attendant in Exchange Online for all customers using these workloads. Microsoft is retiring Unified Messaging (UM) in Exchange Online and replacing it with Cloud Voicemail and Auto Attendant services.
