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What are the differences between skype for business standard and enterprise edition
Hi,
I am trying to find out all the differences between skype for business standard and enterprise edition but I have not found any microsoft article that lists them.
I plan to deploy Skype For Business for the first time, any advice or considiration before deploying will be welcome!
Thank you.
You can start here: https://technet.microsoft.com/en-ca/library/dn933894.aspx and also https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/gg398254.aspx which shows deployment options based on company size.
Effectively the difference between Standard and Enterprise comes down to scalability and High Availability. Standard Edition allows for all features/functionality of Skype within a much smaller server footprint and is better suited for smaller organizations. However, it doesn't allow for High Availability within a single datacenter. You can pair Standard Edition Servers to provide for Disaster Recovery. This might be appropriate for smaller orgs that are <5000 users.
Enterprise Edition uses a larger server footprint and does allow for both High Availability within a single site and Disaster Recovery. It also also provides for scale and supporting up to 80,000 users per pool.
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You can start here: https://technet.microsoft.com/en-ca/library/dn933894.aspx and also https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/gg398254.aspx which shows deployment options based on company size.
Effectively the difference between Standard and Enterprise comes down to scalability and High Availability. Standard Edition allows for all features/functionality of Skype within a much smaller server footprint and is better suited for smaller organizations. However, it doesn't allow for High Availability within a single datacenter. You can pair Standard Edition Servers to provide for Disaster Recovery. This might be appropriate for smaller orgs that are <5000 users.
Enterprise Edition uses a larger server footprint and does allow for both High Availability within a single site and Disaster Recovery. It also also provides for scale and supporting up to 80,000 users per pool.
- Hi,
Thank you for your reply.
The second link is not working.
I plan to deploy Standard Edition but i like to be sure that will have all features.
Hight Availability not very important in my case.I started to reply but remembered a post I'd seen before and was able to find it:
https://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/ie/en-US/76efd70d-7c5e-4b2d-9145-e6360489d8df/standard-edition-pool-vs-enterprise-pool?forum=sfbfr
Mark Vale provides a pretty good succinct overview of the differences and considerations - is there something specific that you want to know?
- something like this: https://kb.intermedia.net/article/2245 ?
- Hi
Thank you for your reply but the link is not updated.
(ex. Dial-in Conferencing is marked as not supported but it is supported)
