Skype For Business - Admin/Policy Options????
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@Carnival-Boy said:
@garak0410 said:
True but we have no requirement for it YET...we will soon!
I'd love to hear how you'll use it. I know nothing about Skype for Business other than it used to by Lync and it is "unified communications". Anything that has everyone excited gets me excited too!
It's an awesome product..... if it works. Which is often does not. It has all kinds of great features, is easy to use, looks nice, does audio, video, screen sharing, presence, integrates with Exchange and AD.... it's really nice until you need to communicate and it just doesn't work. Great idea, but no effort into making it do what it needs to do reliably.
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@Carnival-Boy said:
@garak0410 said:
True but we have no requirement for it YET...we will soon!
I'd love to hear how you'll use it. I know nothing about Skype for Business other than it used to by Lync and it is "unified communications". Anything that has everyone excited gets me excited too!
Depends on your environment. It's worked well for us here, as well as I've used it most previous jobs. It's biggest issue is if you have it open on to locations sometimes the messages do not get sent to both. Otherwise the in-house version works fine. Office 365 Lync tends to go down a lot.
We will likely be switching to a Cisco solution once all phones are deployed across the country and mexico as it provides deep integration with the phone system.
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@scottalanmiller said:
@Carnival-Boy said:
@garak0410 said:
True but we have no requirement for it YET...we will soon!
I'd love to hear how you'll use it. I know nothing about Skype for Business other than it used to by Lync and it is "unified communications". Anything that has everyone excited gets me excited too!
It's an awesome product..... if it works. Which is often does not. It has all kinds of great features, is easy to use, looks nice, does audio, video, screen sharing, presence, integrates with Exchange and AD.... it's really nice until you need to communicate and it just doesn't work. Great idea, but no effort into making it do what it needs to do reliably.
Interesting to know...I'll keep an eye on this...I do know when I've tried to CONTROL someone's desktop via Skype for Business if I get like 2 to 3 Windows deep, I can't click on anything...but I've had that happen in another remote control app before.
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@garak0410 said:
Interesting to know...I'll keep an eye on this...I do know when I've tried to CONTROL someone's desktop via Skype for Business if I get like 2 to 3 Windows deep, I can't click on anything...but I've had that happen in another remote control app before.
I wouldn't use it for desktop control. That has issues. We use Logmein for that. Mostly so we use the same tool everywhere get to laptops on or off site no matter if they are on the VPN or not.
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We moved away from both Lync/SFB and LogMeIn to ScreenConnect. We are VERY happy about that!
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ScreenConnect is the poo. Best remote access tool I've used. Easy to use and cost effective.
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I don't use it that much as I tend to be on Linux but I'm happy with what I have seen. Way more stable than LMI, that's for sure. LMI crashes out every two or three minutes so I spend far more time reconnecting than I do actually using it. SC will keep a remote session open for days at a time without an issue.
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@scottalanmiller said:
I don't use it that much as I tend to be on Linux but I'm happy with what I have seen. Way more stable than LMI, that's for sure. LMI crashes out every two or three minutes so I spend far more time reconnecting than I do actually using it. SC will keep a remote session open for days at a time without an issue.
I haven't had any crashes with LMI so far.
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Me neither. I love it. LMI Hamachi has also been a rock solid VPN for us.
We use Samsung XChange for unified comms as it came with our Samsung phone system. It's ok. Most users love the instant messaging - it makes you realise how rubbish e-mail is as a communication tool. But I'm expecting Skype to be the future, Samsung aren't going to have the resources to develop their product in the same way. Plus, Samsung products seem to always be rubbish on iPhones, surprisingly enough.
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Have you seen the new price increase on LMI? We've been told it is more than doubling with the next re-up. Ours was going to jump from $1500 to $3700!! All while going from rock solid to unable to stay connected.
