Move calls from Skype to Nextcloud Talk

Take it out

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   Step 1

   Read Microsoft's export note before you click

   The Skype retirement page, checked November 2, 2026, describes an export portal. The same page also lists more than one cutoff, including January 2026, April 1, 2026, and June 15, 2026. This guide was checked after those dates. If the portal still offers a file, download it and keep it. If it does not, the history is not coming back here.

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   Step 2

   Do not expect the phone number to travel

   The same page says Skype Number subscriptions ended in May 2026 and port-out requests are no longer available. Talk cannot receive that number.

Put it in

1. 1

   Step 1

   Install Nextcloud and turn on Talk

   Talk is an app on a Nextcloud server. The project site says one-to-one and group calls work, guests can join a public room with a link, and phone apps exist for Android and iOS. A High Performance Backend is for larger rooms, not a two-person call.

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   Step 2

   Start new conversations

   Create the room, send the link, and leave the Skype export as a file you can search yourself. Talk does not read that file. This guide did not click through a live import because there is not one to click.

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   Step 3

   Share files from Nextcloud

   The Talk site says documents can be shared into a chat from the Files app. That is the file path. It is not a Skype file-history import.

What you lose

• Calls to real phone numbers

  Talk Phone, described on the product page, assigns extensions inside Nextcloud. It is not Skype Credit and it does not dial the public phone network. SMS, voicemail, and caller ID from Skype are already gone on Microsoft's page.

• The old chat log

  Contacts and history do not move into Talk. Microsoft's page points people who want that transfer at Teams Free, which is a different product and not this guide.

• Skype for Business

  Microsoft says Skype for Business is separate and was not retired with consumer Skype. This guide does not cover it.