Presentation delivered by David Black, IT Director, West College Scotland at College Development Network's 'To VC or Not to VC (...that is the question)' event on June 16, 2017.

1. West College Scotland
Moving towards Skype for Business
David Black – Director, IT
CDN – 16th June 2017

2. Introduction
• Background
• Drivers & Goals
• The SfB Toolset
• Actions so far
• Plans & Next Steps
• Question or Comments

3. Background
• West College Scotland
• Locations
• Inherited / Legacy infrastructure
– Telephony
– UC
• VC position

4. Drivers & Goals
Transforming
• Improve communication and collaboration
• Encourage innovative teaching & learning
• Decrease staff travel time and cost
Technical
• Deploy a universal standard
• “Sweat” a College asset
- CAMPUS license
• Cloud solution
• Tried, tested & supportable…
• ISDN to SIP

5. Skype for Business Toolset
• AD / Exchange / Office 365 integration
• Presence
• Instant messaging
• Audio / Video calling & conferencing
– Cloud PSTN breakout
– Hardware options
1:1 1:many many:many
• Desktop Sharing / File transfer
• Organisational Federation
• O365 Skype ‘Broadcast’

6. Skype for Business Toolset

7. So far….
• Site to site connectivity
• Lync 2013
• Office 365 enablement
• Business case development
• Exchange migration
• Procurement under way

8. Plans & Next Steps
• Conclude procurement
• Project team
• Deal with Exchange prerequisite…
• Design
– User ‘personas’
• Configuration & Test
• Deployment
– 1200 seat roll out
…12-15 months?

9. Summary
• Existing LYNC users at merger
• Organisational drivers
• Economics within the Business Case
• Technical solution
• Prerequisites
• Procurement
• The ‘big’ bit still to come…

10. David Black
david.black@wcs.ac.uk
CDN - 16th June 2017
Questions or Comments