Notes taken from the Ignite session – Plan your UC refresh correctly: Skype for Business on-premises vNext by Daniel Strader.
Session summary
So the key points here are:
- SfB on-prem will have another release
- This release is geared towards enterprise customers, SMB may have challenges
- This release bridges the gap from on-prem to O365 / Teams service
- It will smooth out the migration path to full online
- No Standard Edition server
- This means you need a SQL license for your pools
- No Directors
- Meh
- 2019 will support existing CCE deployments
- Teams will use a “Bring your own SIP trunk” connectivity model
Session content
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- Why another release?
- Microsoft is investing in another version / refresh
- Bringing cloud value to on-prem
- Improved teams interop with SfB
- More time for customers to get to cloud / realise investments
- Teams NDA roadmap in October as part of Enterprise Connect
- If you have on-prem investment & SIP investment then SfB19 is for
you - Envision running side-side with teams
- Designed to provide a better experience before, during after meetings
- Office 2019 server suite
- Clients
- Exchange
- SharePoint
- SfB
- Client
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- Minimum Windows 10
- Only click to run installer, MSI is gone
- Migration
- 2013 – 2019
- 2015 – 2019
- Min server 2016 SQL 2016
- This release is targeted at Enterprise customers, some impact to SMB customers
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- No Standard Edition server
- No Director roles
- No in-place upgrade
- Upgrade dependencies will hamper forward progress so they are being removed where possible
- Hybrid value
- Does need O365 tenant
- Single portal for analytics and retention
- Call queues, AA and Voicemail
- Modern auth support
- Meeting migration service update to support certain on-prem scenarios (server side, removing user tool / pain)
- Hybrid investment
- Consistency across the platforms is key
- “Our vision is that the investments customers have made in SfB voice services are durable as they transition to teams”
- “Do you have to have hybrid for 2019 SfB” – “No, recommended for value but not required”
- Coming via Skype preview
- SfB online is not going away, it still exists
Session Q/A
- What about CCE?
- Current CCE will stay the same for 2019
- CCE will co-exist in 2019 (tbc)
- Can we disable old TLS versions?
- Yes in 2019 and coming to 2015
- Silverlight control panel going away!
- What about on-prem APIs
- Aiming to maintain compatibility but subject to dependencies that could change.
- No updates or changes due to API’s on-prem
- Connectivity for voice in Teams
- Teams will support “Bring your own SIP Trunk” for PSTN connectivity
- Will 2019 include P-Chat
- No Pchat will not be updated in 2019
Will any of the above stuff affect your deployment or plans?