Skype for business understanding what is new, preview or unchanged

Skype For Business Understanding What Is New, Preview Or Unchanged

Fabrizio VolpeSkype for Business MVP

Who Am I?

• I am Fabrizio Volpe – Microsoft MVP on Skype for Business

• I work for the Iccrea Banking Group• I am the author five IT books including Microsoft

Lync Server 2013: Basic Administration and the Lync Server Cookbook

• I tweet from @fabriziovlp• I blog at http://www.absoluteuc.org/

Quotes

True life is lived when tiny changes occur.Leo Tolstoy

To improve is to change; to be perfect is to change often.Winston Churchill

Overview

Let’s Start From What Skype for Business is NOT

SfB is not Skype


SfB is not a “Cloud First” solution


SfB is not a brand new product

What's new in Skype for Business Server 2015

What's new in Skype for Business Server 2015

https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dn933785.aspx

https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dn933785.aspx

New

New

• Video Interop Server (VIS)• Call via Work• Client Interface• SQL Server AlwaysOn support for on-premises servers

Update

Update

• Better data collection and analysis tools• Some enhancements on the mobile clients• Improved patching • Some new options for multi-factor authentication

Is That All There Is?

• PSTN Conferencing• Cloud PBX with PSTN Calling • Broadcast Meetings

Not Exactly Skype for Business

ORTC API is now available in Microsoft Edge

Video Interop Server (VIS)

• New server role

• Legacy video interoperability (VIS), deployed on-premise

• VIS allows interoperability for customers using their existing Cisco VTC’s (Video TeleConferencing) devices

VIS High Level Overview

VIS functions like a Mediation Server but for audio and video

VIS is deployed in a standalone pool (No co-location)

VIS limitations

• Cannot Dial Out To Vtc

• Cannot Drag And Drop Vtc Into A Conference/Meeting

• Vtc Are Not Direct Registered With Skype For Business• No Presence • Not see them as a Contact

Call via Work

Call via Work

Call via Work (CvW) is the next generation and replacement for Remote Call Control (RCC)

RCC was one of the three ways to integrate with Cisco deployments

Call via Work Steps

Call via Work Steps

1. The user selects a user in their Skype for Business client

2. The PBX phone starts to ring3. The user who placed the call picks up their PBX

phone4. Skype for Business then initiates the voice call to

the callee5. When the callee answers, the voice call begins

Client Interface

Client Interface

New clients for IOS and Android

The new clients for IOS and Android should be available soon, while some documentation is already available

SQL Server AlwaysOn support

High availability in SQL Server

• Clustering

• Mirroring

• Log shipping

• AlwaysOn

SQL Server AlwaysOn support

Platform Standalone

Clustering Mirroring Availability Groups

Lync Server 2010

SQL 2008 R2 SP2

SQL 2008 R2 SP2

Not Supported Not Supported

Lync Server 2013

SQL 2008 R2 SP2SQL 2012 SP1



Not Supported

Skype for Business Server

SQL 2008 R2 SP2SQL 2012 SP1SQL 2014



SQL 2012 SP1SQL 2014

AlwaysOn in SQL Server

AlwaysOn in SQL Server

Skype for Business supports AlwaysOn for Back End server


1.Failover Cluster configuration2.Install Database Engine Services3.Enable AlwaysOn Availability Groups


4. In the Skype for Business Server 2015 Topology Builder, we add a new SQL Server Store5. Enable replica for SfB databases

Skype for Business Preview

Skype for Business Preview

• Features in Preview are not yet final.• Registration required• Some features are released first in the United States

Office 365 E5 Plan

Update

• Cloud UC features are part of the new E5 plan in Office 365

• PSTN calling is an “add-on” to the aforementioned plan

Meetings Broadcast

• Holding a meeting with a large number of users, with SfB or Lync 2013 on-premises is complex and costly

• You can schedule a Skype Meeting Broadcast for up to 10,000 attendees

• You use the Skype Meeting Broadcast scheduling and management portal to schedule a meeting

• You use the familiar meeting experience within Skype for Business to produce a professional, engaging event for their audience

• Attendees can join from anywhere on any device, and engage in the meeting

Large Meeting Capabilities

Skype Meeting Meeting Broadcast

Maximum audience size 250 10,000Presenter Camera A/V Present a PowerPoint Desktop & App Sharing Attendee Camera A/V Collaborative Apps (Whiteboard, Poll, Q&A)

Engagement Apps (Pulse, Yammer, Q&A)

PSTN Access Cloud based meeting recording Client DVR controls (ex: pause, rewind)

Branded meeting experience Meeting Producer role

Requirements

Component RequirementBrowser (attendees)

Internet Explorer 11, Chrome, Firefox, OSX Safari, iOS8, Android (KitKat)

Client Skype for Business client for WindowsUsers On-premises and onlineLicense Cloud Meetings Enhancement license. Policy

checked at Outlook sign-in time.Authentication On-premises customers must have established

an online tenant, and configured directory sync to make user accounts and DL memberships available to the Skype for Business Azure Active Directory to enable user authentication and meeting authorization using group membership.

Four different kind of participant

• Organizer

• Producer• Manages the meeting sources (audio, video,

and PowerPoint decks), records the event, and posts the recording to Office 365 Video

• Event team member• Participates in the meeting as a presenter

or speaker• Contribute audio & video• Manage and navigate PowerPoint content

• Attendee

Organizers

• Organizers schedule a meeting broadcast• Web scheduling page at https://

sched.services.skype.net/• Select to create a new meeting• Default setting are: single user running an anonymous

meeting (anyone can join)

https://sched.services.skype.net/

https://sched.services.skype.net/

Customizing a Meeting Broadcast

• Event Title• Scheduled for Start Date, Time and Duration• Event Team Members• Attendees: Anonymous, Secure and Open• Customize Event• Right Panel App (Bing Pulse or Yammer)• Lower Panel App (Bing Pulse or Yammer)• Custom Link for Attendees

Customizing a Meeting Broadcast

Attendees

• Anonymous• Anyone with the join link can attend, even if they

are external to your company• Secure• Only those users who have been invited by the

broadcast service can attend• Open• Anyone from your company can attend by clicking

the join link. They'll use their company user name and password to attend.

Who is in control ?

Producers

• On the Skype for Business client for Windows• Start and Stop the live broadcast• Promote video or content using layouts to manage

attendees’ attention• Preview and activate video sources• Select audio sources to mix Presenters

• Present in room, or remotely• Contribute audio & video• Manage and navigate PowerPoint content

Sign In to a Skype Broadcast

Managing Skype Broadcast

Basic Building Blocks

Attendee web experiences

Content Delivery Network

Azure Media Services

HD Video

Local / Remote Speaker

Studio or Auditorium A/V

Skype for Business “Producer”Skype for Business Online

Core Meeting

Bing Pulse

• Flexible live voting options • Immediate results and insights• Annotations• Custom demographics • Messaging

PSTN Conferencing

• Like the dial-in conferencing on-premises, dial-in conferencing in Office 365 allows meeting attendees to join to a Skype for Business Online meeting by dialing in using a phone

• It is an audio only solution

Select Dialin Meeting Provider

Microsoft and Office 365 as the dial-in conferencing provider.

Third-party dial-in conferencing or audio conferencing provider

Select Dialin Meeting Provider

Microsoft (Office 365) Third-party Provider set up Easy to setup. Most settings are

automatic.Hard to set up. Requires manual steps.

Licensing Additional license. No license but you still pay per user.

Management Integrated into the Office 365 admin center.

Manual management with third-party.

User set up Easy Hard.Billing Through Office 365. Additional through the

third-party ACP.Dial-in conferencing bridge assignment

Automatic Requires a manual entry of conference bridge for each user.

Conference ID management Automatic ManualReset meeting conference ID Yes Yes but you have to

input it manually.Toll free telephone numbers Available in a future release. YesToll domestic telephone numbers

Yes Yes

International toll telephone numbers

Yes Yes

International toll-free telephone numbers

Available in a future release. Yes

Port over existing phone numbers

Yes No

Dial-out / Call-me – Domestic Yes Yes

Cloud PBX with PSTN Calling

• PSTN calling gives Office 365 customers the option to give their users the ability to receive and make calls to traditional phone numbers from their Skype for Business clients

• PSTN calling allows you to search, acquire and assign telephone numbers to users in your organization

Assigning Numbers in 5 steps

1. Assign the correct Office 365 licenses to a user

2. Assign a Skype for Business Domestic and International calling license to your users

3. Add emergency addresses and locations for you organization

4. Search for and reserve phone numbers for your users

5. Assign a phone number to a user

Assign the correct Office 365 licenses to a user (and International Calling)

Assign a Phone Number to a User

Assign a Phone Number to a User

Skype for Business Voicemail

• After you have assigned a user a Skype for Business Domestic and International calling license and assigned a phone number to a user, the user will get voicemail

• When they get a voicemail, it will be delivered as an attachment ( *.mp3, *.wav) with an email message to their Office 365 mailbox.

ORTC in Microsoft Edge

• The ORTC APIs enable the development of real-time audio and video communications applications directly on top of the Microsoft Edge browser without the need to install any plug-ins

• Using components provided directly by the browser, the ORTC APIs provide granular control over audio and video streams on the client machine as well as the transport layer that carries those streams over the network

ORTC in Microsoft Edge

Are There New Tools for Skype for Business?

• Few tools have been updated from Lync Server 2013 to Skype for Business

• Usually the old version works fine also in SfB

• An exception is the SEFAutil

• Debugging Tools have been updated too

Better Data Collection And Analysis Tools

• The Centralized Logging Service is the preferred logging environment for Skype for Business Server 2015

• There are no new features this release, but reliability and performance have been improved for both the service and the Centralized Logging Service Agent (ClsAgent.exe)

• The Snooper debugging tool has also been updated.

Improved Patching

• Microsoft boast that this cuts the time for patching a 12 node pool down from 8 – 12 hours to 2 – 3 hours

• More reliable Checks for readiness across the pool within the cmdlet before failover. Leverages windows fabric v2 deactivate/activate node APIs ensuring more dependable operation

Technology

Skype for business understanding what is new, preview or unchanged