Category Office365

The Skype for Business client was officially launched this year on March 18^th and, as from now, a free technical preview is available for all eligible Office 365 Enterprise users.

The technical preview provides early access to new features:

• Skype Meeting Broadcast
  • Available for all Office 365 customers
  • Enables Skype for Business meeting up to 10 000 people
  • Suitable for public webinars
  • Integrated with Bing Plus for real-time polling and with Yammer for dialogue during the broadcast
• PSTN Conferencing
  • Available for U.S. Office 365 users only
  • Allows people to join an online meeting via smartphone or tablet from locations with no Internet access
• Cloud PBX with PSTN Calling
  • Also available for Office 365 U.S. users only
  • Provides traditional phone calls with the possibility of managing call features such as hold, forward and transfer

New features are not finalized yet. General availability will most likely be at the end of the year.

About Skype for Business

Skype for Business is an excellent solution if you want to bring communication and collaboration to a new level. It gives you everything you need: instant messaging, audio and video calls, online meetings and sharing – all in one app that works with Office.

You can access it anywhere, from your favorite device or web browser. All you need is an Internet connection.

High-level security protects your conversations with strong authentication and encryption. Also, you control employee use by adding and removing subscriptions and assigning features according to their collaboration needs.

You’re not an Office 365 user yet? Contact us and feel free to ask anything you would like to know about its implementation.

Skype Rooms

Last week Microsoft rebranded Lync into Skype for Business. It was announced that Video Conferencing Solutions – Skype Rooms – will be provided by Polycom. The new series of video collaboration solutions is called Polycom RoundTable®; an affordable and easy-to-use video solution for small and midsized businesses and teams, including voice, video and content collaboration.

Skype and Office 365

Skype for Business will be fully functional in the Cloud. Microsoft is partnering with big telecommunications companies in order to make this possible. Their plan is to integrate Enterprise Voice into Office 365, so that Customers will be able to call people on any phone.

Skype for Business is coming in April and it will be available to Office 365 customers, as well as for on-premises deployments. You’ll be able to connect with your colleagues and with anyone who has a Skype account.

Lync will become Skype for Business officially on March 18^th. Rebranding will bring a new modern UI with elements from Lync and Skype and it will include well known Skype icons for calling and call monitor, possibility of calling any Skype user on any device, etc.

“A new client experience, new server release, and updates to the service in Office 365.”

Users with on-premises Lync servers will have to upgrade Skype for Business manually. For Office 365 for business customers, it will be done automatically.

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Buy your Microsoft ESD license through our web shop. You can choose an Office 365 subscription in accordance to your requirements: Office 365 Personal, Office 365 Home. Besides that, you can purchase separate programs from the Microsoft Office suite: Outlook, PowerPoint, OneNote, Access, Excel, Publisher, Visio, Word. We offer Croatian and English versions.

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For Mac users, we offer online product key licenses for Office Home and Student 2011 and Office Home Business 2011 packages.

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Office 365 Personal is purposed for the individual user. Subscription allows installation for one PC or Mac, and one tablet. Package covers full installed Office applications, online versions of Office, 7 GB of free online storage  and 20 GB extra storage for one user, 60 world minutes calling per month on Skype.

For a family of five, we recommend you Office 365 Home. It offers installation for 5 PCs or Macs, and 5 tablets, with 20 GB of extra storage for each user.

Beside that, you can use it on your iPhone or iPad.

Click on the product name if you want to buy a subscription.