What's next for Microsoft's Skype for Business unified communications products
Microsoft looks to be readying a new Skype for Business on-premises server and may soon clairfy how Teams fits into its unified communications business roadmap. But that silence may soon end, based on a list of sessions on Skype for Business that are slated for Microsoft's Ignite conference for IT professionals in late September . According to those sessions, there is, indeed, another on-premises version of Skype for Business coming . One Ignite session, entitled "Plan your UC refresh correctly: Skype for Business on-premises vNext," explicitly calls this out. Microsoft made generally available its latest on-premises version of Skype for Business ( Skype for Business Server 2015 ) -- its unified communications platform and successor to Lync Server -- available in mid-2015. While Microsoft officials have emphasized that the company will deliver more on-premises versions of SharePoint Server , they have not, to my knowledge, made the same public guarantees about ...