Skype for
Business
Keep up with all the latest
developments with Skype at
www.skypeprograms.net/Home/Resources
Here's detail below on one recent
announcement: Skype Meeting Broadcast
Skype Meeting Broadcast
enables organizations to broadcast a Skype for Business
meeting on the Internet to up to 10,000 people, who can
attend from a browser on nearly any device. Meeting
broadcast makes it easy to host large virtual meetings
like internal “Town Hall” style meetings and public
webinars.
We are happy to announce that Skype Meeting Broadcast
has been released for General Availability (GA)! We
greatly appreciate the enthusiastic participation of our
Preview participants whose use of Skype Meeting
Broadcast helped us in validating in advance of GA.
Below you will find links to documentation & training:
Documentation:
IT Admin/Tenant Admin Documentation
End User/Producer Documentation:
Skype for Business is available standalone
or it's now included with
Office 365 for Business subscriptions
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If you already use Skype to stay
in touch with friends and family in your life away
from work, you'll appreciate the power and
simplicity of Skype for Business where it's easy to
find and connect with co-workers. And you can use
the devices you already have to reach businesses
through an enterprise-grade, secure, IT-managed
platform. If you're coming to Skype for Business
from Lync, you'll recognize all of the features you
already use but in a fresh new interface with simplified
controls and some great new additions.
Professional
collaboration and meetings – all integrated with
your Office apps
Find anyone in your company and schedule meetings in
Outlook
Powerful productivity with Office
See your contacts' online statuses,
schedule meetings in Outlook, and start
conversations from apps like Word and PowerPoint.
Up to 250 people in meetings
Connect with anyone.
Meet with up to 250 people—even if
they're not on Skype for Business. All they need is
a phone or internet connection.
Enterprise-grade security and management of employee
accounts
Security and control.
Conversations are protected by strong
authentication and encryption, and you manage
employee accounts and features.
Skype has a whole division focused on
business applications: https://www.skype.com/intl/en/business/
It's focus: To "transform
the way your business works. Explore ways
Skype can help you to work smarter with cost effective and collaborative
tools, whatever the size of your business."
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For the
Home Office - Use Skype to stay connected to your customers
and clients when working from home. You can save money on calls, manage
all your business and personal contacts and do more together with video
& collaboration tools. On PCS, Laptops, Macs, iPhones, smart mobile
phones . . .
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For
Small Business - Grow your business while saving on communications
costs. With Skype you can build your business by working closer with
clients, colleagues and suppliers, wherever they are. It's also a simple
way to reduce technology and travel expenses while you grow. Easily set
up accounts for employees, allocate them credit and assign Skype's great
features all from one place.
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For
Medium Business - Get more out of communication at work. Use Skype to
work together face-to-face and in more collaborative and productive
ways. It's now easier to build relationships with a wider group of
customers and suppliers, no matter where they are in the world. Easily
create Skype business accounts for colleagues, allocate credit and
assign features with Skype Manager. Extend Skype to your existing PBX
phone system, and you can make great rate international calls from desk
phones with little or no upgrade required.
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For Large
Enterprises - Increase productivity while driving down costs, Skype
helps large organizations communicate and collaborate, whether that is
between desks and departments, cities and continents, or even just smart
mobile phones, the office and home.
The Skype Forums -
https://forum.skype.com/index.php?showforum=32
Some Applications & Case
Studies:
Products tailored for Skype for Business:
Click on this link
for a live demo of the VSS-1 System . . . connect
your existing room videoconferencing systems to Skype and Skype for Business.
08/13/2019
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