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Skype Room Systems v2 - first impressions
MicrosoftThanks for the feedback! All very good points. We are working on an update coming soon that will address some of the issues you point out:
- Removing Surface Pro 4 Front/Rear cameras (after this change, most deployments will only have 1 camera so device selection will not be necessary)
- The settings page will allow admins to configure (1) Speaker and Mic for Conferencing and (2) Speaker for HDMI ingest
- Regularly logging Skype health data (ie. app is running, signed in, front of room screen plugged in, etc) to an Event Log for OMS (or any other service) to pickup and raise alerts
Dave [MSFT]
Good to know, Dave. I was going to toss together a PS script to do our 'tweaks', but that takes some work off my plate. Any rough schedule on updates, and do those just push as part of Windows Updates, or will we need to do anything by hand to update the app?
Also, is there anything in the works for the additional gallery view options I mentioned above?
- David Tse (SKYPE)
You should have the Update 1 sometime in March. If you are enrolled in the preview program, you will get a build in Feb. Updates should install automatically overnight (assuming your environment does not disable automatic Windows Store Updates).
I will pass on feedback re Big Brotherness of gallery, but at this point, our gallery improvements are focused on supporting 2 Front of Room screens.
was the update pushed recently? Is there any easy way to check version? Had some funkiness the other day with no output on one of the HDMI ports on the Logitech, but the other worked, so I'm wondering if it happened in the last week?
Also, is there any workaround or method to get local content (HDMI passthrough) to show during a PSTN call? Scenario where a vendor using Webex brings in a laptop and wants to present locally, and dial in via PSTN, results in a screen indicating it can't pass content into the meeting (which is obviously expected on PSTN, but we still need to get the local content shown)
Thanks!
- David Tse (SKYPE)Re: Showing local content on PSTN call. This should work (i just tried this). If you dial a PSTN number, plugging a laptop in to the video ingest of SRS v2 will show your laptop output on the front of room display.
You can toggle the size using the "layout" button on the console.
We have our First Room System V2 in place and discovered 2 strange things.
1.) The Room is showed offline and doesnt' updated his presence information. We logged on with the room account on a workstation, started the normal SfB Client, logged out, and from this time the presence information are working.
2.) When we invite the Room System the Meeting is shown on the front and the presence is still available. But when the meeting starts and nowbody joined the meeting, the presence is still shown as available, my regular SfB Client show as presence indicator "In a meeting". So it looks like the calendar is not correct elected. But the calendar processing works, because when i create a second meeting in the specified timeframe, the meeting will be rejected.
Anyone discovered the same behavior?
Best regards
Jörg
- David Tse (SKYPE)Hm.. that is unusual. SRS v2 presence behavior should behave just like the SfB Client. Could be something server side?
