Today, at the Microsoft Ignite Conference in Atlanta, Georgia,
we announced several new Skype for Business innovations that enhance the
Office 365 collaboration
experience across devices and empower IT professionals to deliver modern
communications to their end users. Read on for more about what we
announced today.
The best user experience for workplace communication
Over the past year we’ve been working on making the best experience
for communicating with others, across all the devices you use for work.
We are excited to announce that the new Skype for Business for Mac will
be available in October. The new client has been written from the ground
up using the modern Mac programming language, Swift. It provides
high-definition audio and video, in addition to features like one-click
join for meetings and edge-to-edge video and desktop sharing to make
full use of a screen.
As part of our efforts to build deeper native integration on iOS and
Android, we’re also pleased to be rolling out enhancements to the Skype
for Business experience on iPhone staring in October. Using the
Apple CallKit framework, Skype for Business calls now work just like a
cellular call on your iPhone. You can accept a call via the lock screen
or put a Skype for Business call on hold to take a cellular phone
call—it works just like a phone. Both clients deliver a first-class
Skype for Business experience to Mac and iOS users.
We’re also pleased to announce that we’ll deliver a preview of
real-time transcription and translation in Skype Meeting Broadcast by
the end of 2016. Skype Meeting Broadcast in Office 365 lets you produce,
host and broadcast meetings to large online audiences. These new
services will provide live closed-captioning for presentations spoken in
English, Spanish, Simplified Chinese and German, and allow viewers to
select their preferred language for captions. More languages will be
released throughout preview.
The next generation of Skype Room Systems
Today, we’re announcing the next generation of Skype Room Systems
(formerly Project Rigel). Skype Room Systems bring the Skype for
Business meeting experience, with rich HD audio and video, to every
meeting room. With the new Skype Room Systems, your team can work like
you’re all in one place, quickly and easily join meetings, make phone
calls, and instantly share content in the room and remotely—all from an
elegant touch screen console device. Transform your meeting rooms and
make any space a Skype meeting place. Logitech SmartDock for Skype Room
System bundles are available to reserve today, and will start shipping
in a few weeks. You can also reserve Crestron’s Skype Room Systems,
shipping at the end of this year, and the Polycom MSR Series for Skype
Room Systems, which will start shipping early first quarter of 2017.
We are also pleased to announce the preview of Polycom RealConnect
Service for Office365. This service, hosted on Microsoft Azure, enables
non-native video teleconference (VTC) systems from Cisco and others to
join a Skype for Business meeting. This means you can keep your existing
investments and non-Skype for Business endpoint devices can leverage
Skype for Business Meetings all in a seamless experience.
The power of global availability and capability
With the scale of Microsoft, you can use Office 365 to manage your
communications globally. For online meetings, today we are announcing
the latest geographic expansion of PSTN Conferencing. Customers in
Australia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Costa Rica, Dominican Republic,
Egypt, Latvia, Lithuania, Malta, Monaco, Philippines, Qatar, Russia,
Serbia, Sri Lanka, Ukraine, Uruguay and Vietnam can now purchase audio
conferencing as part of Office 365. People can join Skype for Business
meetings using local numbers from 90 countries and 400 cities across the
globe—virtually everywhere. Default city numbers are available to every
Office 365 customer, and customers can now acquire dedicated toll
numbers or toll-free numbers in hundreds of cities across the globe via
the Office 365 admin portal. Starting in October, we are also releasing
previews of PSTN Calling in France and Spain for testing. PSTN Calling
plans are already generally available in the United States, United
Kingdom and Puerto Rico.
Office 365 administrators can decide where they want to provision
their users for meetings. By the end of the calendar year, Skype for
Business will support regionally hosted meetings. Users within
multinational organizations can be provisioned in the datacenter region
nearest to their physical location—reducing latency, delivering high
quality media and keeping the data in the same region.
We’ve also been striving to create better experiences while users are
in a meeting. Starting later this year, a new dynamic conference IDs
feature will also be standard for all Skype for Business online
meetings. Dynamic conference IDs provide a unique conference ID for each
Skype for Business meeting, offering enhanced security and smoother
transitions between back-to-back meetings. If a meeting organizer’s
meeting is running long, the meeting will no longer be interrupted by a
guest of the next scheduled meeting.
For voice services, Skype for Business Cloud PBX is already available
worldwide, helping IT administrators realize significant operational
efficiencies with a complete solution for user provisioning and call
control in Office 365. Office 365 customers can use Skype for Business
Cloud Connector Edition to connect our Cloud PBX with your existing
telephony environments using the telco carrier of your choice.
In October, we’ll roll out previews of Organizational Auto Attendant
for call treatment and Call Queues for queueing and routing of inbound
calls. Configured by the admin in the Office 365 admin console or
through Windows PowerShell, these powerful features let customers
quickly migrate entire offices to Cloud PBX for voice.
Lastly, by the end of the year, Skype for Business Advanced Analytics
will be in preview. Advanced Analytics is a powerful single pane of
glass that enables customers to manage their global communications using
a complete set of tools that provide an end-to-end view of the Skype
for Business online environment—from users to entire enterprise. Our
most recent enhancement gives you built-in intelligence to optimize your
network for the best end-user experiences and proactively drive
adoption.
Deployment excellence with the Skype Operations Framework
With the launch of Skype Operations Framework (SOF), we are expanding
on an end-to-end planning, deployment and operations methodology and
tool set for Skype for Business. The framework provides a comprehensive
guide and toolset for implementing and managing a reliable,
cost-effective communications service with operational excellence.
Today, we’re announcing the availability of the Cloud Migration release,
which extends SOF and will play a critical role in helping our
customers and partners migrate from current on-premises deployments to
Skype for Business Online using the SOF lifecycle of Plan, Deliver and
Operate. Our SOF Partners also play a critical role in helping customers
plan, deliver and operate Skype for Business Online successfully. Since
the launch of SOF, hundreds of organizations have undertaken SOF
training, and leading partners, including Modality, Hewlett Packard
Enterprise, Avanade, Unify Square, Tata Communications and Carousel, now
offer SOF-aligned services to customers.
Move your communications to Skype for Business Online today
Customers around the world rely on Microsoft for their
communications. We power over 1 billion meetings per year, more than any
other provider. Kelly Services, TRC, Cushman & Wakefield, Ixia and
many others take advantage of our services in Office 365 to improve
teamwork, consolidate suppliers and cut costs. And they can rely on our
commitment to continually improve our services using the hyper-scale,
intelligent and trusted Microsoft Cloud.
Try Skype for Business in your organization using the free 30-day
Office 365 E5 trial and see how a complete enterprise-grade voice and
meetings solution delivered as an integral part of our modern
productivity stack can help your teams achieve more together.
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