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Plan to deploy Skype Meeting Broadcast: Everything an IT admin should know
Greg Baribault
Principal Program Manager | Microsoft
Jeff Tyler
Audience Experience Lead | Microsoft
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2. Mission Worldview Strategy Ambitions
Empower every person and every organization on the planet to achieve more
Mobile-first
Cloud-first
Worldview
Build best-in-class platforms and productivity services for a mobile-first, cloud-first world
Strategy
Create more personal computing
Reinvent productivity & business processes
Build the intelligent cloud platform
Ambitions

3. Enterprise meetings on your terms
Your Device
Your Time
Your Language

4. Enterprise Video Lifecycle
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Enterprise Video Lifecycle
SEARCH & DISCOVER
VIEW LIVE
ARCHIVE
SHARE
PLAN
SKYPE MEETINGS SKYPE BROADCAST
OUTLOOK
OFFICE 365 VIDEO
DELVE
JOIN
PRODUCE
VIEW ON-DEMAND
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5. Foundations Supported Deployments Licenses required Client Support
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Foundations
Supported Deployments
Office 365 Online
Lync / Skype for Business Hybrid
Licenses required
Enterprise (E1-E5) or Skype for Business Online Standalone Plan 2
GOV / GCC and Non-profit now available
Client Support
Producer: Skype for Business 2015 standalone - September Update, build or later
Skype for Business Click-to-Run, build or later. No producer controls in MSI (KB )
Presenter: Any Lync or Skype for Business client, Mac, Mobile
Attendee: Any modern browser
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6. Large Meetings on Skype
Skype Meeting
Skype Meeting Broadcast
Maximum audience size
250
10,000
Presenter audio & video 
PowerPoint Presentations
Desktop Sharing
Coming soon, with VbSS
Audience apps
Whiteboard, Poll, Q&A
Pulse, Yammer, Moderated Q&A
Attendee audio / video
via invitation to event team
Cloud based meeting recording
Attendee DVR controls (pause, rewind)
Available on-demand immediately
Meeting Producer role
Post-meeting report
Coming soon: Closed captions & translated subtitles

7. What’s new? Broadcast is now enabled by default for all tenants
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What’s new?
Broadcast is now enabled by default for all tenants
Moderated Q&A
Recycle bin for past meetings
Enable/Disable control for on-demand
Integration with eCDN/SDN distribution partners
Dual signaling channel for client – improved resiliency
Available to customers in current “GoLocal” environments
Open to more licenses (non-profit, Government Cloud)
Skype for Business Admin Center UI for tenant settings
(TAP) Publish recording to Office 365 Video
(TAP) Multi-factor auth and federated scheduling and join
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9. Demo
Broadcast “How-To”

10. What’s coming? (~6 month horizon)
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What’s coming? (~6 month horizon)
Broadcast Production
Recurring meetings, Reusable join links, Rehearsal support
Support for integrated screen sharing
Improving event scheduling and calendar integration
Enterprise video publishing and management through Office 365 Video
MFA, Federation and OAuth support for event team members
Attendee experience
Federated and OAuth support for attendees
Simpler join for anonymous events
Closed captioning, subtitles (4 spoken languages, 50 languages at launch) and downloadable transcript
Tell us what YOU want!
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11. Video Distribution Basic adaptive streaming
Unicast stream adapts to optimize viewer experience based on local network conditions
High scale media distribution
Minimize WAN impact using Software Defined Networking (SDN) / Enterprise CDN distribution
Skype Meeting Broadcast is already integrated with:
Hive Streaming hivestreaming.com Booth 964
Kollective kollective.com Booth 765
HD Video
High-Quality Video
Standard Video
Maximum resolution
1280x720
960x540
640x360
Maximum Frames per Second
30 fps
Maximum bandwidth
1700 kbps
850 kbps
500 kbps

12. Who am I and why am I here?

13. About me Audience Experience Lead
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About me
Audience Experience Lead
8 years streaming video for Microsoft events
Connecting online experiences with in-person
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14. Microsoft Production Studios
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Microsoft Production Studios
Center of Microsoft video production
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15. Microsoft Production Studios
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Microsoft Production Studios
Broadcast infrastructure
History
Goals
Founded in May, 1997
Originally built for satellite uplink and downlink for news media purposes
4 sound stages
HD live video production, audio production streaming, streaming, and video editing
Ensure quality and consistency across Microsoft video
Maintain broadcast-quality expertise in- house
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16. MICROSOFT BROADCAST AND STREAMING CENTER

17. Why we do live video communications

18. of United States employees work remotely at least some of the time
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Reach your audience
37%
of United States employees work remotely at least some of the time
Global workforce
Efficiency/ Logistics
Financial
Extend your reach
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19. Create a "moment" Microsoft Ignite 2016 3/24/2018 4:47 PM
Increased view durations
Extend lifespan with On-Demand
Interactivity
Engagement
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20. How we do live video

21. How we do live video Equipment and personnel Planning Infrastructure
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How we do live video
Equipment and personnel
Planning
Infrastructure
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22. DEDICATED SKYPE MEETING BROADCAST MACHINES

23. Why we use Skype Meeting Broadcast

24. Previous state of affairs
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Previous state of affairs
Global on-prem hardware footprint
Media servers around the world to maintain and troubleshoot
Streaming portal development and maintenance
Adding new features and ensuring uptime required time and energy across multiple teams.
Reliability did not meet our goals
Personnel requirements
Every event required people from several teams to monitor and manage
Ongoing maintenance
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25. Problems solved with Skype Meeting Broadcast
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Problems solved with Skype Meeting Broadcast
Reliability
Authentication
Web portal and CMS
Encryption
Reduced hardware and staff 1 2 3 4 5
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26. General production best practices

27. Video Production Lighting
Lighting can be the difference between a production perceived as quality or amateur

28. Video Production Best practices
Communication
Real-time communications are critical for live events
Designated Roles and Responsibilities
Who’s on first? Know who is responsible
Audio
Often underrated in importance
Contingency Planning
Even MacGyver goes in with a plan

29. Video Production Connecting to Skype Meeting Broadcast
Fully produced event
Video capture card or dongle to connect production signal to PC via SDI or HDMI
Extended Skype Meeting
Headset with microphone or PC webcam and microphone

30. Planning for success requires planning for failures
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Planning for success requires planning for failures
Build with redundancy
Identify single points of failure
Contingency planning
FMEA
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31. Deploy, ramp-up on new services and onboard new users with Microsoft FastTrack:

32. Join the Microsoft Tech Community to collaborate, share, and learn from the experts:

33. Join the Skype for Business Community
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Join the Skype for Business Community
Discover rich discussions and information sharing across customers, partners, and users
IT Pro Forums
User Forums
Broadcast Updates
Tips and Tricks
Product Updates
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34. #MeetingAccomplished
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#MeetingAccomplished
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