Audience – The Audience are people who are watching the meeting but have no ability to interact with the meeting.Producer- The Producer is responsible for making sure the correct presenter or participant is heard or seen at the right time and ensures no content is obfuscated from the meeting.Participant – Participants are like your extras, or co-presenters who are responsible for engaging with the presenter in order to enrich the meeting and give it purpose.Presenter – A presenter is your anchor-man (or woman) or actor(ress) who will be delivering the content of your production in the meeting.So what is a Skype Broadcast Meetings in one sentence?Ī Skype Broadcast Meeting is a special meeting that takes place between presenters and participants that can be aired live to audiences of up to 10,000 across the globe. There are 4 types of users in a Skype Broadcast Meeting, Presenters, Producers, Participants and Audiences – There is a difference! Not everyone can participate in a Skype Broadcast Meeting.Skype Broadcast Meetings have their own unique placement and does not compete with those technologies, only enhances them. Skype Broadcast Meetings are not a replacement to dial-in conferences, web conferences, room systems or ad-hoc meetings where both presenters and participants can collaborate interactively.Therefore, they will not lose any features they currently consume, only add to their productivity toolset. Presenters who want to use Skype Broadcast Meetings do not have to be moved from on premises Skype for Business to Skype for Business Online.Now you’re on premises identities have been synchronised to Azure Active Directory, Single Sign-On activated and on premises users have been licenced with E3 plans in Office 365, you are ready to start thinking about Skype Broadcast Meetings.
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Microsoft have created a stepped guide to this process that can be found here: If you have not got your hybrid in place and you want Skype Broadcast Meetings, please set your hybrid up first. Setting up your on premises Skype for Business deployment with Office 365 is a very straightforward procedure, provided you have all the supported infrastructure and pre-requisites already in place.
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E1 or Business licenced users will not be able to participate in these meetings.
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The minimum Office 365 subscription that allows the use of Skype Broadcast Meetings is E3. Skype Broadcast Meetings will work with Skype for Business Server 2015 provided that you have an active on-premises to online hybrid. To do this, let’s take a journey from start to finish through the feature, from integration to consuming. Having had the opportunity to see Skype Broadcast Meetings in action and come down from the initial excitement, I wanted to take some time to evaluate the feature’s pros and con’s and to try and discover where I see this fitting within businesses.