SKYPE WEB PRESENTATION UPDATE
SKYPE WEB PRESENTATION DOWNLOAD

SKYPE WEB PRESENTATION UPDATE

Update for Microsoft Office Web Apps Server 2015

SKYPE WEB PRESENTATION DOWNLOAD

Confirm that you download the Web Application Server updates along with the actually installation bits.

Make sure you have a dedicated machine that doesn’t have any Skype 2015 server roles located on it before you begin deployment.

The following are some deployment best practices from the field:

User is able to download content from WAC server directly.

Skype Content File Share server provides the presentation to the WAC Server.

WAC server makes a request to the Web Conferencing server asking for the presentation (on a first time request).

Viewer client clicks on the URL to view the presentation to request from the WAC server.

Note: Additional security is also provided by session lifetime token and is put in the URL.

When the request is made to present a file, the base URL is taken encode a few things (such as file ID, meeting ID, unique identifier of the actual FE server hosting the meeting) and send it to the client.

Note: URL contains the file ID also the base URL for the conference which allows the viewer to point to the WAC Server

Web Conferencing Server creates a dynamic URL (This URL is in the config database and is when you deploy the Skype server, you identify where the WAC server is located) that will send to presenter and audience.

The Web Conferencing Server encrypts the file and sends the file to the Skype Content File Share without any conversion.

Sharer uploads a PowerPoint file into the meeting to the Web Conferencing Server.

The following walkthrough details the process that occurs when a user uploads content and when viewers download the presentation.

To improve the Skype user experience of users who wish to present or view PowerPoint presentations, SFBS 2015 uses Office Web Apps Server to handle PowerPoint presentations. As the SFBS 2015 Enterprise Edition deployment you would need to define the URL for the Web App server when deploying Skype Standard Edition in the topology builder.įigure 1: Office Web Apps Server FQDN url configuration in Skype 2015 Topology Builder You would not collocate the Web Application Server along with the Skype2015 Standard Edition server. SFBS 2015 Standard Edition is usually used for small deployments (5,000 or less users) and in these scenarios you would have a Skype Standard Edition and a Web App server. When identifying the Web App server, this is done in the topology builder by specifying a URL of the single Web Application Server or load balanced Web Application Server farm. In a SFBS 2015 Enterprise Edition deployment (5,000 or more users), the Skype2015 Pool is set up as usual. The Web Application Server can reside on physical hardware or virtual machine. Note: The Web Application Server requires a dedicated server and shouldn’t be collocated with any other Skype server role. Microsoft recommends to set up a centralized Web App Server farm so all related components can leverage its usages. The Web Application Server (WAC) will be responsible for providing service to the organization, so in the event that a single node is not available services for document rendering still need to take place which in lies resiliency. The Web Application Server will exist within the network and become and additional server outside of the Skype roles that is called upon for services such as Exchange and SQL. Web App Server Deployment Best Practicesīeing that the Web Application Server is not a SFBS 2015 server role, we are not quite adding an additional Skype server to the topology but we are adding a shared component to the topology.We are going to take a look beneath the surface at some key areas that make-up the Web Application Server:

With the standardization of SFBS 2015 using SharePoint for its document rendering process comes with benefits that previous version of Skype didn’t provide such as higher-resolution for video and PowerPoint capabilities such as attendees having the ability to move ahead through PowerPoint slides independent of the speaker.

The Web Application Server will be solely responsible for allowing SFB clients to present PowerPoint presentations to audiences regardless to the device the recipient is using. The Microsoft Skype team went with a more formidable approach to document rendering in turn is accomplishing several things at the same time with regards to standardizing the way various products present Office based documents to non-standard devices such as tablets, IPhones, MACs, and other mobile devices as well. The Web Application Server is not a true Skype for Business Server 2015 (SFBS 2015) role, but a SharePoint role that SFBS 2015 leverages for its document rendering of Office related applications.

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