Scheduled for release in the first half of 2015, Skype for Business will include a new client, server and updates to Office 365.
Join us as we explore what this change means to organisations who currently use or plan to use Microsoft Lync.
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Microsoft is turning Lync into Skype for Business (and making it even better)
1. Microsoft is turning
Lync into Skype for
Business
Gordon Tan
Managing Director
R & G Technologies
2. Agenda
What’s happening? Why the change?
How will this change impact you?
New features that will benefit you
How to update to Skype for Business
Prepare for the future: our predictions
3. What’s happening?
Combining the experience you love (Skype) with the security
you trust (Lync)
Together in one place
4. Why the change?
Makes sense: Microsoft owns Skype
Create a better user experience
One communication tool = increased productivity
6. New features
Skype’s easy-to-use interface and functionality: get the
familiar Skype icons, user experience and call monitoring.
7. New features
Instant message, audio call and video call any Skype user
anywhere in the world
8. New features
Increased call quality: taking the SILK default codec from
Skype
9. New features
Better mobile apps for iOS, Android and Windows
Windows Android iPhone
10. How to update
Lync Server customers: update from Lync Server 2013 to the
new Skype for Business Server in 2015. You will not need any
new hardware.
Office 365 customers: Microsoft will handle all required
updates. You will need to do nothing.
New customers: Available for purchase 1st half of 2015.
11. Microsoft’s goal…
“Bring together the familiar experience
and user love of Skype with the
enterprise security, compliance, and
control from Lync to create the most
loved and trusted communications
platform for doing things together.”
Gurdeep Pall Corporate
Vice President @ Microsoft.
Skype & Lync.
12. Predictions for the future
Google will struggle to compete
Will be used to take and make phone calls
Skype for Business will potentially offer a full PABX
No longer need PSTN (buy Skype credit)
13. About R & G Technologies
Award winning ICT consultancy with offices in Brisbane, Sydney
and Melbourne
Servicing nonprofits and small-med businesses Australia-wide