{"id":696,"date":"2015-03-16T20:30:06","date_gmt":"2015-03-16T20:30:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wp.kinetics.co.nz\/?p=696"},"modified":"2015-03-16T20:30:06","modified_gmt":"2015-03-16T20:30:06","slug":"introducing-skype-for-business","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.kinetics.co.nz\/?p=696","title":{"rendered":"Introducing Skype for Business"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/Skype-for-Business.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-693\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/Skype-for-Business.jpg\" alt=\"Skype for Business\" width=\"205\" height=\"188\" \/><\/a>Lync&#8217;s becoming Skype for Business.\u00a0\u00a0 It combines the friendliness and familiarity of Skype with the functionality of Lync.\u00a0<a href=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/SkypeForBusiness.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-694\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/SkypeForBusiness-239x300.jpg\" alt=\"SkypeForBusiness\" width=\"239\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a> It&#8221;ll mean that Skype, and Skype for Business will work seamlessly together (although obviously the business version has more capabilities, such as sharing content and web conferencing etc)<\/p>\n<p>Today Microsoft released the technical preview.\u00a0 You can download it from the technet evaluation centre.\u00a0 The general release will be in April.<\/p>\n<p>[header2 text=&#8221;Key points&#8221; align=&#8221;center&#8221; color=&#8221;#00cfef&#8221; margintop=&#8221;&#8221;]<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>this is an upgrade to Lync<\/li>\n<li>it will work with Office 365 and Lync-on-premise<\/li>\n<li>Office 365 users with a plan that currently offers Lync will get Skype for Business automatically.<\/li>\n<li>No word yet on mobile versions<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The preview\u00a0 is available (for the brave!) today &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lync&#8217;s becoming Skype for Business.\u00a0\u00a0 It combines the friendliness and familiarity of Skype with the functionality of Lync.\u00a0 It&#8221;ll mean that Skype, and Skype for Business will work seamlessly together (although obviously the business version has more capabilities, such as sharing content and web conferencing etc) Today Microsoft released the technical preview.\u00a0 You can download [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":693,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-696","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.kinetics.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/696","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.kinetics.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.kinetics.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.kinetics.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.kinetics.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=696"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/new.kinetics.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/696\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.kinetics.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.kinetics.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=696"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.kinetics.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=696"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.kinetics.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=696"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}