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Gareth Moore
May 11, 2018Copper Contributor
Chat Rooms
Are chat rooms available in this? In work we're upgrading to Windows 10 and the latest Skype for Business server (we're currently on an old server so I can't test this out) and we've been asked to co...
Damien Margaritis
Jul 04, 2018Iron Contributor
Hi Gareth,
Whist there was an on-premises solution to provide chat rooms for Skype for Business (persistent chat), moving forward Microsoft Teams is the platform you should be looking at to provide this capability.
If you're deploying Skype for Business Server Standard Edition as part of your upgrade, it is supported to co-locate the Persistent Chat server role on the same server. That said, features/capabilities within Microsoft Teams are preferable to what Persistent Chat can offer.
Cheers,
Damien
Whist there was an on-premises solution to provide chat rooms for Skype for Business (persistent chat), moving forward Microsoft Teams is the platform you should be looking at to provide this capability.
If you're deploying Skype for Business Server Standard Edition as part of your upgrade, it is supported to co-locate the Persistent Chat server role on the same server. That said, features/capabilities within Microsoft Teams are preferable to what Persistent Chat can offer.
Cheers,
Damien