Damien Margaritis (Lync MCM) and Loryan Strant (Office 365 MVP) bust the myths around the merger of Microsoft Teams and Skype for Business. In this session we cover: - Will Skype for Business and Microsoft Teams merge? - How does this affect on-premises deployments? - What's going to happen with conferencing and phone calls? - What to use when?

8. Skype for Business is still available
Skype for Business Server is evolving

9. Office 365 Groups
Outer LoopInner Loop
Files
Sites
Content
SharePoint
Email

12. Azure
Office 365 platform
and services
Skype InfrastructureTeams Services
Teams Clients

13. High Level Architecture
Exchange
Most recent
files
Telemetry
Files
Files
Web
Companions
Notes
Calendar
AAD
Identity
Firehose
Listener
MessagingSettings and
O365 access
OneNote
OneDrivefor
business
WAC
Other
Workloads
SERVICES
Key
Microsoft Teams
Skype services
Azure and O365
Notification
Hub
Connectors
Chat &
Presence
services
Extensibility
Next Gen
Calling
Audio /
Video
Search
Experimentation
MRU Teams
services
Email
Service
SMTP
Desktop iOS
App
Android
App
Windows
Phone
App
Electron
Teams
Calling
Web
SharePoint
PSTN

14. Microsoft Teams
Skype for
Business Online
Bringing together Skype for Business and Teams
Commercial
On-Premises
Skype for
Business Server
Commercial Cloud
(Office 365)
Today

15. Microsoft Teams
Bringing together Skype for Business and Teams
Commercial
On-Premises
Skype for Business
Commercial Cloud
(Office 365)
Tomorrow
Server for voice, video and meetings
O365 Upgrade Benefits
Fewer apps, richer experiences
Higher quality calling and meetings
Rapid innovation of UC capabilities
Continued Commitments
Skype for Business Server
Cloud voice and video
Support for 3rd party devices & solutions

19. Side by Side

20. Side by Side with Notify

21. Teams Only
*Skype for Business client
still used to join Skype for
Business meetings

24. Connected
Meeting
Lifecycle
Experience before, during,
after a meeting. A meeting
object “connects” people,
content and conversations
Natural and
Collaborative
Experience
Engaging face to face video
Immersive content
Rich sharing experiences
Meeting Rooms
Meetings
Just
Work
Robust external meetings
High reliability & A/V quality
Across Desktop, Web, Mobile
Teams Meeting Experiences

25. Connected Meetings Lifecycle
Meetings within the context of a rich, ongoing dialog
During a Meeting
Join the meeting from any device
Continue conversation with context
Share desktop, apps & content
Record a meeting
Post Meeting
Continue post meeting conversations
Share with others (@mention)
Schedule follow up meeting with context
Playback a meeting
Pre Meeting
Ongoing conversation
Prepare and discuss content
Scheduling from Teams
Scheduling from Outlook

26. Connected
Meeting
Lifecycle
Experience before, during,
after a meeting. A meeting
object “connects” people,
content and conversations
Natural and
Collaborative
Experience
Engaging face to face video
Immersive content
Rich sharing experiences
Meeting Rooms
Meetings
Just
Work
Robust external meetings
High reliability & A/V quality
Across Desktop, Web, Mobile
Teams Meeting Experiences

27. Connected
Meeting
Lifecycle
Experience before, during,
after a meeting. A meeting
object “connects” people,
content and conversations
Natural and
Collaborative
Experience
Engaging face to face video
Immersive content
Rich sharing experiences
Meeting Rooms
Teams Meeting Experiences
Meetings
Just
Work
Robust external meetings
High reliability & A/V quality
Across Desktop, Web, Mobile

33. TODO: Consistent
content;
Take out Recording
Take out call controls
Add 3d avatars
Marketing review | Microsoft Teams

35. No user on state –
just consumption
Marketing review | Microsoft Teams

36. Meetings View Meeting Details Channel Meeting
Mobile Meetings – iOS and Android

37. Mobile Meetings – iOS and Android
Immersive video
Content view

38. • SfB Teams Meetings different
• Teams next-gen stack cloud services
• SfB client cannot join a Teams meeting
• IT can control type of meetings
• Teams users use the SfB client to join SfB meetings
Skype for Business vs Teams Meetings

41. Video Interop for Skype for Business
https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/office/mt779140

42. Cloud Video Interop for Teams – Three Partners

44. • Scheduled Meetings
• Outlook Calendar Integration
• Meetings on Mobile devices
• ‘Guest’ Access
• PowerShell cmdlets (Public Beta)

49. What about my on-premises investment?

50. Preview Mid 2018 | Release Late 2018
Office 2019 Server

51. Continuing commitment to –
on-premise and hybrid
customer needs
Refreshed Mainstream Support
Quality, Security and Performance Fixes
Refreshed Skype for Business Clients
IT Pro and Voice Centric release
Cloud Connected Analytics and Voice Apps
Improved Teams Interop
Targeting Late 2018

52. Server 2013  Server 2019
Server 2015  Server 2019
Minimum of:
Windows 2016 & SQL 2016

54. Teams
Skype for Business Online
Skype for Business Server 2019
Call Analytics and Retention in
one portal for all users

55. Voicemail Service
Auto Attendant
Call Queues
One Experience for all users

56. Preview mid 2018 / Release late 2018
No Standard Edition, only Enterprise Edition
Supported side by side migration from Lync 2013/SfB 2015
Continued commitment from MS for on-prem and hybrid deployments
Skype for Business Server 2019 can leverage cloud developed
technologies for your on-premises users

57. Damien Margaritis Loryan Strant
damien.margaritis@insynctech
nology.com.au
@DMUnifieid
loryan@loryanstrant.com
@LoryanStrant
www.talkingteams.tv