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2. BRK3301 - Understand the Skype for Business Meeting Room Interop
Microsoft Ignite 2016
1/26/2018 5:25 AM
BRK Understand the Skype for Business Meeting Room Interop
Adam Jacobs Principal Microsoft Architect
Polycom Inc.
Albert Kooiman Principal Program Manager
Microsoft
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3. Agenda Interop Challenges Experience Overview Supported Features
Deployment/Service Architecture
Currently Supported VTCs

4. Typical Interoperability Challenges
Including Equipment in Scheduled meetings
Scheduling mechanisms often require additional software
Endpoints equipment (location & VTC model) may not be known by organizer
Many room systems do not support native Outlook scheduling
Meeting Join
May require deployment of client-side plug-ins
Many VTC models have no keyboard – painful to type long dial-in strings
In Meeting
Majority of existing solutions require “meet on the bridge” – not native Skype for Business MCU and integrated roster
Many interop solutions fail to show shared content correctly or to all participants
Purchasing and Administration
Deployment and licensing involves planning
A usable solution addresses more than just technical interoperability challenges but focuses on the end-user experience to drive actual adoption.

5. Different User Experiences
Skype for Business
3rd Party MCU “meet on the bridge”
Gallery View with roster/control and IM
P2P Skype for Business experience without roster

6. Competitive Differentiation
Polycom RealConnect Service for Office 365
3rd Party MCU
Scheduled via existing Skype for Business Outlook add-in
Provisioned and enabled via Office 365 portal
License management via tenant admin portal
Zero video infrastructure configuration
Skype for Business Online integration
Flexible join capabilities
Modern content support
Panoramic video for immersive/ITP rooms
On-going updates and support for additional VTC makes/models and firmware revisions
3rd party plug-in or meeting footer configuration
Disjointed admin experience
Licensed via a 3rd party
Complex video infrastructure deployment or costly system integration fees
Meeting invitation for VTC resource mailboxes or drag/drop endpoints
Complex to establish meetings
Low framerate content sharing (RDP only)
On-going updates/maintenance performed by customer

7. Video

8. Polycom RealConnect Service for Office 365
Productivity Benefits
Outlook Scheduling - Easily schedule a conference call supporting any modality from various platforms using a familiar calendar solution with no plugins
One Touch Dial- Connect to any Skype for Business meeting from a traditional video system without the need to remember any numbers or dial any auto-attendants
Choose Any Device - Join the conference call the way you like to collaborate with traditional conference rooms and Skype for Business participants providing voice, video, and content sharing
Operational Benefits
Increase adoption and usage through familiar scheduling process and intuitive user experience
Investment protection across both traditional room systems and Microsoft UC deployments
This industry-first cascading solution was released to the public in July 2014 as part of the existing standards-based Polycom infrastructure, long before other one-off gateway products began to copy a subset of RealConnect capabilities .

9. RealConnect Service for Office 365 Experience
Standard VTCs
VTC Experience
Skype for Business Experience
ITP/Immersive VTCs

10. A Simplified Workflow 1. Invite via Outlook 2. Join as you always do3.
Collaborate with others
Click to join from any Skype for Business or Lync client
Gallery View & native content sharing in either direction
Just create a new Skype Meeting
*Animated Slide
One Touch Join supported on all Skype Room Systems products, all Polycom Group and HDX endpoints, and Cisco Telepresence endpoints.
While schedule meetings are the preferred approach for nearly all Skype for Business customers ad-hoc meetings are also supported. An escalated or ‘Meet Now’ call started on the Microsoft AVMCU can be joined from any standards-based room system using the Skype Meeting ID which can be retrieved by any user currently in the meeting.
One Touch Dial from various room systems
Continuous Presence video and standards-based content stream

11. A Consistent Experience
RealConnect provides a consistent user experience for both Skype for Business and standards-based attendees with bi-directional video, audio, and content streams.
Supported VTCs (Cisco, Polycom and LifeSize Room Systems)

12. Meeting Room Challenges
Problem
Many VTCs will have limited input methods
Calendaring “Click-to-Join” may not be viable
Some VTCs leverage H.323 or SIP, which vary in dial string
Different models handle H.323 and SIP dial strings differently
Solution: Support Multiple Join Mechanisms
Click-to-Join: For internal VTCs, using click to join, the VTC will directly join the meeting.
SIP IVR: Dial then conference ID is entered via IVR
Speed dial for SIP URI/H.323: Dial
Conf ID + normalization rule: For internal VTCs, the user enters only the normalization code and Conf ID and they will join the meeting directly

13. Polycom RealConnect Service for Office 365 Supported Features
RealConnect “Phase 5” hosted within Azure
Initially available for Skype for Business Online
Seamless scheduling and join experience for Skype for Business Online users
VTC vendor-specific dial-in details
Multiple join mechanisms
Click-to-Join
IVR
Direct Dial
Support for Immersive Telepresence (with Panoramic video)
Bi-directional support for desktop sharing (VbSS post TAP)
Operated and supported by Polycom
User-based licensing (paid for on an monthly/annual basis)
To be sold via familiar Polycom channels

14. Invite from licensed user?
Admin/user Workflow
Admin
YES
Licensed User
App already installed?
Skype for Business Online deployed
Add (or
Cancel) Licenses?
App
Installed
VTC User NO
IT Admin installs the Polycom Office 365 App
IT Admin Purchases licenses via the Polycom Office 365 App
IT Admin assigns (or releases) licenses via the Office 365 Portal
Service ready to use
Licenses ready to assign
YES
YES
Meeting Organizer?
Invite from licensed user?
Video Interop Licensed user
Invite automatically contains VTC join info
User of supported VTC
User enters Key and conference ID NO NO
VTC joins conference
See VTC user flow
Meeting is not interop enabled

15. Polycom Office 365 App
Installation of an Office 365 app via the Office 365 Market Place
The Polycom Office 365 App will be used to manually manage the Lifecycle of the licenses:
Single sign-on with Office 365
Customer will enter his information for performing the purchasing
Direct purchase the subscription for X licenses (per-user / monthly or yearly automatic payment)
Enter a code that will enable X licenses (handles Polycom’s managed customers that purchased the licensed through contract)
Remove X licenses

16. Office 365 Portal - Licenses Assignment
Once available in Office 365, the Cloud Interop licenses are treated like any other first party licenses IT Admin can assign the licenses directly from the Office 365 Portal UI (user management) or through PowerShell Once a licenses is assigned to a user, the authoritative location for storing this info is AAD Skype for Business syncs this information resulting in Polycom RealConnect Service provisioning, assigning the right policy to the user
Licenses purchased
IT Admin can assign licenses from Office 365 Portal or PowerShell, same as 1st party offerings
Licenses Assigned
Office 365 Portal
– User management and license assignment

17. Meeting Invite of Enabled User

18. Overall Meeting Join Flow
Meeting discovery & join
VTC B 3
SfB compliant signaling
A second VTC dials the SIP URI (or number) in the invite 5
SfB compliant media
VTC A
VTC dials the SIP URI within the invite 2
Entry in the roster, call controls and video for each one of the VTCs in the call 4
Invite includes Dial-In info for VTCs 1

19. Redundant Architecture
US West
US West
US Cent.
Each Polycom RealConnect Service (RCS) is comprised of multiple ingress points that are behind a VIP/call redirector service. In the instance whereby a regional data center was completely down the VTC would be re- directed via geo DNS to the next available RCS data center.
For H.323 endpoints this dial-in addresses will be presented within the dial-in instructions page, this is also updated dynamically via geo DNS.
US Central
US East
US East

20. Cloud Video Interop Service Architecture
*Animated Slide
RealConnect provides a consistent user experience for both Skype for Business and standards-based attendees with bi-directional video, audio, and content streams.

21. Prerequisites Existing on-premises call control
SIP or H.323 registration i.e. Cisco VCS, Call Manager or Polycom DMA
On-premises dial-plan that supports external dialing i.e.
Internet connectivity
Office 365 tenancy needs to be enabled for scheduling capability
Office 2013/2016 patch needs to be applied (Windows only supported for now)
Open the following FQDNs in your perimeter security: meet.skype.net  and sched.service.skype.net
Supported VTCs (see next slide)

22. Supported VTCs in Preview Documented tested firmware versions
Polycom Endpoints
Version
RealPresence Group Series (incl. Centro and Immersive)
5.2.1
HDX
3.1.11
Trio
5.4.3
VVX
5.4.4
CX8000
LifeSize Endpoint
Version
LifeSize 220
5.0.9
Cisco Endpoints
Version
TX 9000
6.1.10
CTS 3010
TX 1310
CTS 1300
CTS 500
SX 10
7.3.3
SX20
MX 200
EX 90
C 90
C 60
DX70
DX80

23. References Product Announcement RealConnect Overview
RealConnect Overview
Skype for Business Broadcast
Ignite Announcement

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