Ireland and the United Kingdom enterprise technology-change research

PT-2026-202 · dossier edition · 5 August 2026

PlatformTrace

Enterprise platform change across Ireland and the United Kingdom.

enterprise telephony platform migration · completed

UK Home Office migrates enterprise telephony to Microsoft Teams Phone

The Home Office migrated approximately 63,000 users, 5,000 appliance accounts, 700 meeting rooms and more than 200 sites to Teams Phone. The source describes the execution as eight working days and the accelerated migration wave as completed within one week.

Organisation
Home Office, United Kingdom
Predecessor
Skype for Business and the preceding legacy enterprise telephony environment
Destination
Microsoft Teams Phone with Colt Direct Routing as a Service as the primary telephony platform
Workload
Microsoft Teams Phone and Colt Direct Routing as a Service
Stage
completed
Evidence boundary: The two duration formulations apply to differently scoped descriptions in the source and are preserved rather than collapsed. Colt Direct Routing as a Service remained the primary telephony platform.

Verified platform change

The Home Office migrated approximately 63,000 users, 5,000 appliance accounts, 700 meeting rooms and more than 200 sites to Teams Phone. The source describes the execution as eight working days and the accelerated migration wave as completed within one week.

Transition

From: Skype for Business and the preceding legacy enterprise telephony environment

To: Microsoft Teams Phone with Colt Direct Routing as a Service as the primary telephony platform

Known unknowns

The two duration formulations apply to differently scoped descriptions in the source and are preserved rather than collapsed. Colt Direct Routing as a Service remained the primary telephony platform.

Official sources

  1. UK Home Office completes accelerated migration to Microsoft Teams Phone — 2025-03-27