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Skype Meeting Broadcast and Content Sharing

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Update as of April 2018: I have a new article here about the latest working features with Skype Meeting Broadcast.   So I’ve been playing around with Skype Meeting Broadcast which is a great tool for broadcasting  large meetings (up to 10,000 users) using just your Skype for Business Client.  Really simple and easy to […]

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Setting up Pexip Infinity with Microsoft Hyper-V Server 2012

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As you may be aware, Microsoft offer Windows Hyper-V Server 2012 (and soon 2016) as a free hypervisor.  I have been doing some testing to see the performance for Pexip Infinity. So, here goes on setting up Pexip Infinity Conference Node with the free Microsoft Hyper-V 2012 (also tested with 2016 with the same results).  This

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Configuring Pexip Infinity to act a Lync/Skype for Business Edge Server

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So you want to communicate with your Office 365 Skype for Business without having an on-premise server.  Well Pexip Infinity can act as a Edge Server that can federate with Office 365. There is an overview here and a step by step guide here on the Pexip Docs site. However, below are the similar simple

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Video Interoperability with the Microsoft Surface Hub

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Happy new year and welcome to 2016. So I previously wrote about my first impression of the upcoming Microsoft Surface Hub.  This was an overview of the device and basic capabilities. Fast forward a few weeks and I had the chance to properly test drive the Surface Hub and how it can work with video

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Polycom releases UCS 5.0 for VVX Business Media Phones

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– UC Software 5.0.0 is a major release for all open SIP platforms including Microsoft® Lync® Server 2010 and Microsoft Lync Server 2013 with qualified compatibility. Polycom UC Software 5.0.0 supports the following VVX Business Media Phones and Polycom SoundStructure VOIP Card: VVX 300/310 business media phone VVX 400/410 business media phone VVX 500 business

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