Book description
Skype for Business
Unleashed
This is the most comprehensive, realistic, and useful guide to Skype for Business Server 2015, Microsoft’s most powerful unified communications system. Four leading Microsoft unified communications consultants share in-the-trenches guidance for planning, integration, migration, deployment, administration, and more.
The authors thoroughly introduce Skype for Business 2015’s components and capabilities, as well as changes and improvements associated with the integration of popular Skype consumer technologies. You’ll find detailed coverage of IP voice, instant messaging, conferencing, and collaboration; and expert guidance on server roles, multi-platform clients, security, and troubleshooting.
Reflecting their unsurpassed experience, the authors illuminate Microsoft’s new cloud-based and hybrid cloud architectures for unified communications, showing how these impact networking, security, and Active Directory. They cover SDN for unified communications; interoperation with consumer Skype and legacy video conferencing; quality optimization, mobile improvements, and much more.
Throughout, the authors combine theory, step-by-step configuration instructions, and best practices from real enterprise environments. Simply put, you’ll learn what works–and how it’s done.
Detailed Information on How To
· Plan deployments, from simple to highly complex
· Deploy Skype for Business Server 2015 as a cloud or cloud-hybrid solution
· Walk step by step through installation or an in-place upgrade
· Overcome “gotchas” in migrating from Lync Server 2010 or 2013
· Leverage new features available only in cloud or cloud-hybrid environments
· Implement and manage Mac, mobile, Windows, browser, and virtualized clients
· Establish server roles, including front end, edge, and mediation server
· Make the most of Skype for Business Server 2015’s enhanced mobile experience
· Manage external dependencies: network requirements, dependent services, and security infrastructure
· Efficiently administer Skype for Business Server 2015
· Provide for high availability and disaster recovery
· Integrate voice, telephony, and video, step by step
· Avoid common mistakes, and discover expert solutions and workarounds
Category: Business Applications
Covers: Skype for Business
User Level: Intermediate—Advanced
Table of contents
- About This E-Book
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Contents at a Glance
- Table of Contents
- Foreword
- About the Authors
- Dedications
- Acknowledgments
- We Want to Hear from You!
- Reader Services
- Part I Overview
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Part II Skype for Business Server 2015 Server Roles
- Chapter 4 Skype for Business Server 2015 Front End Server
- Chapter 5 Skype for Business Server 2015 Edge Server
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Chapter 6 Skype for Business Server 2015 Monitoring and Archiving Best Practices
- Installing Monitoring Components
- Monitoring Configuration
- Monitoring Administration
- Monitoring Troubleshooting
- Installation of Call Quality Dashboard Components
- Enabling CQD in Skype for Business Online
- Call Quality Dashboard Configuration
- Call Quality Dashboard Administration
- Archiving Components Troubleshooting
- Archiving Components Installation
- Archiving Configuration
- Archiving Administration
- Archiving Troubleshooting
- Best Practices
- Summary
- Chapter 7 Skype for Business Server 2015 Mediation Server
- Chapter 8 Persistent Chat
- Part III External Dependencies
- Part IV Administration and Management
- Part V Migrating from Older Versions
- Part VI Skype for Business Server 2015 Voice, Video, and Integration
- Part VII Integration with Other Applications
- Part VIII Office 365 and Skype for Business Server 2015 Online
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Part IX Clients
- Chapter 24 Microsoft Lync for Mac Client
- Chapter 25 Mobile Clients
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Chapter 26 Windows and Browser Clients
- Installing the Client
- Signing In
- Navigating in the Client
- Peer-to-Peer Conversations
- Conferencing
- Understanding Persistent Chat
- Integration with Other Applications
- Skype for Business Server Browser Capabilities
- Skype for Business Server 2015 Web App Technical Review
- Requirements to Deploy Skype for Business Browser Functionality
- Summary
- Chapter 27 VDI
- Chapter 28 UC Endpoints
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Part X Planning for Deployment
- Chapter 29 Planning for Skype for Business Online and Hybrid Deployments
- Chapter 30 Virtualization Support
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Chapter 31 Planning for Basic Skype for Business Server 2015 Services
- Determining the Scope of the Deployment
- Determining Your Infrastructure Needs
- Planning for Capacity
- Planning for Instant Messaging
- Planning for Conferencing
- Planning for Clients and Devices
- Planning for Archiving
- Defining Your Archiving Requirements
- Planning for Management
- Documenting the Plan
- Best Practices
- Summary
- Chapter 32 Planning to Deploy External Services
- Chapter 33 Planning for Voice Deployment
- Index
Product information
- Title: Unleashed Skype for Business
- Author(s):
- Release date: September 2016
- Publisher(s): Sams
- ISBN: 9780134289274
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