


You should also provide sufficient notification to your end users.

You should schedule the downtime for a time when you expect minimal user activity. This entire transition process also means that federated access will be unavailable for the duration of the outage. Changing the federation route and media traffic route requires that you schedule maintenance downtime for the Skype for Business Server 2019 and previous version Edge Servers.The following procedures must be followed to transition the federation route and the media traffic from your previous version’s Edge Server and Director to your Skype for Business Server 2019 Edge Server, for a single-site deployment. After you migrate to your pilot pool, you need to transition from the federation route of your previous version’s Edge Servers to the federation route of your Skype for Business Server 2019 Edge Servers. Federation is a trust relationship between two or more SIP domains that permits users in separate organizations to communicate across network boundaries.Move remaining users to Skype for Business Server 2019Īfter these tasks are completed you will be in the home stretch for your migration to Skype for Business Server 2019, so let’s jump right in!Ĭonfiguring federation routes and media traffic.Verify federation and remote access for external users.Configure federation routes and media traffic.In order to do this, you will be responsible for the following tasks: Now that we’ve proven we can configure and deploy Skype for Business Server 2019 in a pilot deployment, it is finally time to move things to a production-level deployment. In this blog we’ll be making the big move from pilot to production! Don’t be scared though, because we’ll be discussing everything you’ll need to set you up for success! Also, if you haven’t gotten a chance to read through Phases 1-5 I strongly encourage you to check them out here! Phase 6: Move from pilot deployment into production Last time we added the Edge Server role to our deployment. Hello again! Welcome back to Phase 6 of 8 in our migration to Skype for Business Server 2019.
