{"id":5584,"date":"2017-12-05T10:13:11","date_gmt":"2017-12-05T15:13:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/?p=5584"},"modified":"2024-07-08T06:06:09","modified_gmt":"2024-07-08T10:06:09","slug":"microsoft-lync-decommission","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/2017\/12\/05\/microsoft-lync-decommission\/","title":{"rendered":"Microsoft Lync to be decommissioned Jan. 29"},"content":{"rendered":"

Since the university’s adoption of services such as Google’s G Suite and BlueJeans, the user base for Microsoft Lync,\u00a0an instant messaging and conferencing tool, has been slowly declining. Because of this, the Ross School of Business, which has hosted and maintained the service for use by campus, will retire Microsoft Lync on January 29, 2018. Current users of Lync may consider other university-supported alternatives for videoconferencing<\/a>\u00a0and chat<\/a>. Please contact\u00a0Cheryl Sobkow<\/a>, systems and services support manager for the Ross School, with questions about the retirement of Microsoft Lync.<\/p>\n

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Since the university’s adoption of services such as Google’s G Suite and BlueJeans, the user base for Microsoft Lync,\u00a0an instant messaging and conferencing tool, has been slowly declining. Because of this, the Ross School of Business, which has hosted and maintained the service for use by campus, will retire Microsoft Lync on January 29, 2018. Current users of\u2026 Read More »<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":6003,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_uag_custom_page_level_css":"","_umich_oidc_access":"","_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_ef_editorial_meta_date_first-draft-date":"","_ef_editorial_meta_paragraph_assignment":"","_ef_editorial_meta_checkbox_needs-photo":"","_ef_editorial_meta_number_word-count":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[394,393,225],"class_list":["post-5584","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-projects-services","tag-chat","tag-lync","tag-videoconferencing"],"uagb_featured_image_src":{"full":["https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/Lync-logo.png",600,418,false],"thumbnail":["https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/Lync-logo-125x87.png",125,87,true],"medium":["https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/Lync-logo-287x200.png",287,200,true],"medium_large":["https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/Lync-logo.png",600,418,false],"large":["https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/Lync-logo.png",600,418,false],"1536x1536":["https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/Lync-logo.png",600,418,false],"2048x2048":["https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/Lync-logo.png",600,418,false],"excerpt-thumbnail":["https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/Lync-logo-200x140.png",200,140,true],"themonic-thumbnail":["https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/Lync-logo-60x42.png",60,42,true],"ioslider-thumbnail":["https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/Lync-logo-600x300.png",600,300,true],"post-thumbnail":["https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/Lync-logo.png",600,418,false],"400x250-crop":["https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/Lync-logo.png",359,250,false]},"uagb_author_info":{"display_name":"News Staff","author_link":"https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/author\/mitnewsadm\/"},"uagb_comment_info":0,"uagb_excerpt":"Since the university’s adoption of services such as Google’s G Suite and BlueJeans, the user base for Microsoft Lync,\u00a0an instant messaging and conferencing tool, has been slowly declining. Because of this, the Ross School of Business, which has hosted and maintained the service for use by campus, will retire Microsoft Lync on January 29, 2018.…","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5584","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5584"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5584\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6006,"href":"https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5584\/revisions\/6006"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6003"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5584"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5584"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5584"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}