Can I use Skype Meeting Broadcast with a hybrid deployment if on-prem is Lync Server 2013?
Hi, I am very interested in leveraging the Skype Meeting Broadcast capabilities for our company. We have E1 licenses for everyone but our Skype deployment is using Lync Server 2013 on-prem, and will likely remain that way for a while. I have been reading through the documentation for this and it isn't clear to me if Skype for Business Server 2015 is required to do this hybrid setup or if we can do hybrid with Lync Server 2013 and still use Broadcast. I started with this article: https://support.office.com/en-us/article/What-is-a-Skype-Meeting-Broadcast-c472c76b-21f1-4e4b-ab58-329a6c33757d At the bottom there is a link to https://technet.microsoft.com/library/mt243953.aspx, which specifies that the article is for Skype for Business Server 2015. That is why I thought it was a requirement... however, once inside that article, I saw there was this article: https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/jj205403.aspx, which contained instructions server 2015 as well as 2013 here: https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/jj205403(v=ocs.15).aspx. It looks like the hybrid configuration is supported with Lync Server 2013 on premises, but I can't tell for sure if that includes support for Skype Meeting Broadcast, or of that is just for basic capabilities. Any insight you can provide is greatly appreciated! Thanks, Brian
