{"id":257353,"date":"2017-12-22T11:57:11","date_gmt":"2017-12-22T16:57:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.voipsupply.com\/blog\/voip-insider\/?p=257353"},"modified":"2024-12-26T14:22:39","modified_gmt":"2024-12-26T19:22:39","slug":"microsoft-retires-office-live-meeting-december-31-2017","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.voipsupply.com\/blog\/voip-insider\/microsoft-retires-office-live-meeting-december-31-2017\/","title":{"rendered":"Microsoft Retires Office Live Meeting on December 31, 2017!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><a class=\"post-thumbnail\" href=\"\/skype\/skype-for-business\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-257363 alignleft\" src=\"\/blog\/voip-insider\/files\/2017\/12\/Microsoft-Skype.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"245\" height=\"128\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.voipsupply.com\/blog\/voip-insider\/files\/2017\/12\/Microsoft-Skype.jpg 245w, https:\/\/www.voipsupply.com\/blog\/voip-insider\/files\/2017\/12\/Microsoft-Skype-150x78.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 245px) 100vw, 245px\" \/><\/a>Microsoft announced that they will discontinue Office Live Meeting completely by end of this year. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Live Meeting is a popular online collaboration and web conferencing service that empowers businesses to conduct the real-time and interactive presentation.<\/span><\/p>\n<h2><b>Migrating to Skype for Business &amp; Skype<\/b><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The company is planning to migrate all data and applications from Live Meeting into Skype for Business and Skype Meeting Broadcast. Most of the features that were seen in Live Meeting have already been migrated to <a href=\"\/skype\/skype-for-business\">Skype for Business and Skype<\/a> Meeting Broadcast and there are some new upgrades available such as a larger attendee scale. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><a class=\"post-thumbnail\" href=\"\/index.php\/downloads\/dl\/file\/id\/32661\/voip_service_features.pdf\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-257383 alignright\" src=\"\/blog\/voip-insider\/files\/2017\/12\/features.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"200\" height=\"153\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.voipsupply.com\/blog\/voip-insider\/files\/2017\/12\/features.jpg 393w, https:\/\/www.voipsupply.com\/blog\/voip-insider\/files\/2017\/12\/features-150x115.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.voipsupply.com\/blog\/voip-insider\/files\/2017\/12\/features-300x230.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\" \/><\/a>Live Meeting users are encouraged to begin transferring their system to other similar solutions no later than December 31st, 2017, at which time Microsoft will fully close the Live Meeting service.<\/span><\/p>\n<h2><b>Other Web Collaboration Options<\/b><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">There are a lot of easy web collaboration tools available on the market that will provide you with even better interactive video conferencing, shared drive, and team collaboration. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Check out more <\/span><a href=\"\/index.php\/downloads\/dl\/file\/id\/32661\/voip_service_features.pdf\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">VoIP service features here<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> to learn how you can keep your employees connected in one system, regardless of their location. Call one of our VoIP experts at <\/span><b>1-800-398-8647 <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">to get a free consultation!<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Microsoft announced that they will discontinue Office Live Meeting completely by end of this year. Live Meeting is a popular online collaboration and web conferencing service that empowers businesses to conduct the real-time and interactive presentation. Migrating to Skype for Business &amp; Skype The company is planning to migrate all data and applications from Live [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":123,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1221,1217],"tags":[7163,6123],"class_list":["post-257353","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-small-business-voip","category-voip-news","tag-voip-news","tag-voip-service"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.voipsupply.com\/blog\/voip-insider\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/257353","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.voipsupply.com\/blog\/voip-insider\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.voipsupply.com\/blog\/voip-insider\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.voipsupply.com\/blog\/voip-insider\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/123"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.voipsupply.com\/blog\/voip-insider\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=257353"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.voipsupply.com\/blog\/voip-insider\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/257353\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":311259,"href":"https:\/\/www.voipsupply.com\/blog\/voip-insider\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/257353\/revisions\/311259"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.voipsupply.com\/blog\/voip-insider\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=257353"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.voipsupply.com\/blog\/voip-insider\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=257353"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.voipsupply.com\/blog\/voip-insider\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=257353"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}