Manage Skype for Business Online organizations

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    Skype for Business

Important

Skype for Business Online operated by 21Vianet in China will be retired on October 1, 2023. If you haven't upgraded your Skype for Business Online users yet, they will be automatically scheduled for an assisted upgrade. If you want to upgrade your organization to Teams yourself, we strongly recommend that you begin planning your upgrade path today. Remember that a successful upgrade aligns technical and user readiness, so be sure to leverage our upgrade guidance as you navigate your journey to Teams.

Skype for Business Online, excluding the service operated by 21Vianet in China, was retired on July 31, 2021.

Note

The latest Teams PowerShell public preview release is integrated with Skype for Business Online Connector, providing a single module for Teams PowerShell management.

You can find information about your Skype for Business Online tenant by using the Get-CsTenant and Get-CsTenantLicensingConfiguration cmdlets.

Manage Skype for Business Online tenants

To return information about your Skype for Business Online tenant, call the Get-CsTenant cmdlet without any additional parameters.

Get-CsTenant

To return just the tenant name and ID, use this command.

Get-CsTenant | Select-Object Name, TenantID

The value of the TenantID parameter is required when running cmdlets such as Set-CsTenantPublicProvider and Set-CsTenantFederationConfiguration.

To find information about whether licensing information for the specified tenant is available in the Skype for Business Online admin center, use the Get-CsTenantLicensingConfiguration cmdlet.

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