Skype for Business 2019 Feature Overview and Install Walkthru

This month we finally got the release of Skype for Business 2019 Server for on-premises which clearly demonstrates Microsoft's continued commitment and support for customers still staying on-premises with Skype for Business. With this release, mainstream support will continue at least through to 2023 which gives customers not ready yet for Teams the ability to stay with a current version of Skype for Business. This release also comes with a host of new features and in this blog post we'll cover a quick Standard Edition installation walk-thru as well as an overview of these new features, In future blog posts we'll configure these new features in more detail and depth. The steps provided here are a shortened version of the detailed deployment guide from Microsoft available at ​https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/SkypeForBusiness/skype-for-business-server-2019 

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