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Microsoft also is planning to offer customers 'Microsoft-driven automated upgrades to Teams' as an option. It is also working to provide upgrade/migration tools in the Microsoft Teams & Skype for Business Admin Center, which will be available to all Office 365 customers later this calendar year. Microsoft is offering self-service guidance with best practices and resources to customers who either want to use Skype for Business and Teams side-by-side or to transition completely to Teams. And a number of other Skype for Business features either are in rudimentary stages or also not there yet, they said. Phone support in Teams isn't nearly ready for prime time, some said. When Microsoft told partners in June that Skype for Business and Teams were at feature parity, more than a few Microsoft customers were more than a little skeptical of those claims.

They will make their online debut when they are delivered in Teams this calendar year.' The full statement: 'There are four enterprise-grade voice features on the roadmap for calling in Teams (call park, group call pickup, location-based routing, and shared line appearance) that have not been available in Skype for Business Online to date.

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Update (August 24): Ah, so those four features were never part of Skype for Business Online in the first place, a Microsoft spokesperson said. The easiest way to set up a Skype for Business meeting is via your Outlook. Skype for Business Online includes high definition pictures, presence status updates based on Exchange calendar information, unified contact store, archiving, out-of-office messages in Skype for Business, and presence status and click-to-communicate in Outlook.

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