Skype Server 2015/Skype client 2016 - Create subject chat room or subject matter expert (SME) rooms
in our old IM product (not Microsoft) we were able to create an 'expert group' or subject matter expert queue. when the corp user post a question in the SME queue, the assign user(s) would get a notification to answer the question. I posted a similar question to the teams forum but decisions have delayed migrating to 2019. so I'm posting the same question back to this Skype server 2015 forum (using skype client 2016). I can't figure out how to do this with Skype 2015 persistent chat. Based on the architecture of persistent chat with topic feeds, I could create a category and then assign specific users or groups (from AD or exchange distribution lists) to a 'room' that doesn't really work. in theory, I would have to add the entire company to a single chat room and then have the monitors/mangers/SME create 'topic feeds' to get alerts that a question was posted (can we set this all up with a powershell command)? category > chat room > then what? add a topic feed (but not ego)? trying to accomplish that an end user posting a question about benefits to an HR benefits chat room or asking a 'how to' question' to a specific chat or group IM room.
Using Exchange 2013 cmdlets with Exchange 2019 Schema
We have Exchange 2013 with Skype for Business 2015 within our infrastructure. We are working to remove SfB 2015 but will not have this completed within the 90 days of throttling allowance for old Exchange Systems https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/exchange-team-blog/throttling-and-blocking-email-from-persistently-vulnerable/ba-p/3815328. We want to install an Exchange 2019 server as the bridge for sending to Exchange Online as we have been told this will suffice in stopping the throttling issue for now. Since Exchange 2019 does not support UM, if we update the Exchange Schema to 2019, can we still use the Exchange 2013 cmdlets that are associated with Unified Messaging until we remove the SfB 2015 existence? All the mailboxes associated with SfB will still be on Exchange 2013 servers.