Happy New Year Server fans. January brings us new CU’s for SfB Server 2015 and Lync Server 2013.
Skype for Business Server 2015 version 6.0.9319.537 :
Lync Server 2013 version 5.0.8308.1068 :
No big features, but a bunch of fixes. SfB server 2015 now supports moving users from on-premises to Teams
Thanks to my colleague Tobie Fysh for the heads up.
For those not familiar, Microsoft Stream is part of Office 365 and is essentially “Enterprise YouTube”. If you do cloud meeting recording in Microsoft Teams, it will end up in Microsoft Teams, and automatically be permissioned for the people in the meeting from within your organisation to have access to it. Stream has a concept of channels and groups Microsoft Stream groups are connected to an...
Microsoft has recently been moving around supportability dates on Office client and server. Office 2019 will now provide 7 years of support, five (5) years of mainstream support and two (2) years of extended support as an exception to the 10-year Fixed Lifecycle Policy term. This is the “boxed” version of Office clients, not “Office 365” the continuously evolving subscription version. Office...
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Hi, I just wanted to take a minute to highlight two new tools we’re looking for feedback on. The first is from Tom Morgan in our Modality Labs team. The web based tool allows SfB users or external guests to test the connectivity before joining a meeting. Is your network connection good enough? Is your headset appropriate? If you want to have a good meeting experience you can now test before...