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While the trial comes with 5 concurrent licenses nearly any number of licenses can be purchased as needed. The licensing consumption model is simply based on concurrent usage. Availability can depend on the tenant type (public multitenancy versus various government clouds) and the region (some countries are not currently able to leverage this service).

#DEPLOY SKYPE FOR BUSINESS GROUP POLICY LICENSE#

A free 60-day trial license is available today for most Microsoft Office 365 tenants worldwide. Access to both services are provided together using the same consumption license, meaning that RealConnect can be used with any Skype and Teams meeting scheduled by any user in the organization. The recently released offering entitled RealConnect for Microsoft Teams added support for Microsoft Teams meetings. The original service offering is referred to as RealConnect for Office 365, but supports Skype for Business Online, Skype for Business Server, and Skype for Business Hybrid environments. While an earlier article outlined all of the different RealConnect offerings available this series will focus solely on the cloud-based service model of RealConnect. This Microsoft partner-provided service, commonly referred to as Cloud Video Interop (CVI), allows various standards-based Video Teleconferencing (VTC) endpoints to join scheduled Skype for Business and Teams meetings.

This on-premises server is an optional component to the RealConnect service, only needing to be deployed when using Skype for Business Server and/or supporting Cisco endpoints with the One Touch Dial service. Polycom Cloud Relay – outlines the purpose of this component, how it works, and then walks through the steps for deploying a Cloud Relay virtual server on-premises. (A separate article covers the additional configuration for Cisco VTCs.) Polycom One Touch Dial Service – explains what this ancillary service is, how it works, and provides detailed configuration steps for using it with Polycom VTCs. (A future article will cover the additional configuration steps required to support Skype for Business Server or Hybrid deployments with the service.) RealConnect Service for Skype and Teams – introduces the overall solution and the steps to activate the service for use with Skype for Business Online meetings and/or Teams meetings.

This article is the first in a series which covers Polycom’s RealConnect service, a Microsoft Azure-based video interoperability service for Skype for Business and Microsoft Teams meetings.

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