I have a basic question about this. Currently we can have our Skype for Business users join their Skype client into a Cisco Meeting Server conference, but I was wondering if it's possible to also have a Cisco room device registered to CUCM 11.5.1 (Room Kit Plus device for example) manually call into a conference hosted by our Skype/Lync 2013 servers (on premise)? So, if a user sets up a Skype for Business conference, can one of our Cisco room devices (for convenience) somehow dial in and connect to that Skype for Business/Lync 2013 conference (enter the meeting ID and PIN required by Skype/Lync once connected).
I saw these notes from Cisco Live: https://cmslab.ciscolive.com/pod7/ms/s4b-dh
My 2 questions:
1. Is it possible to have the Cisco device manually dial in to a Skype for Business hosted conference on the Lync 2013 servers?
2. Is the Cisco TMS product REQUIRED in any way for this? (assuming we would tell users how to dial to the Skype conference/IVR and not need Cisco to populate any meeting info on a new meeting notice created in Outlook). I'm thinking it's not required just to make this work, but please correct me if I'm wrong.
If I'm reading everything correctly, it's possible to do this and we would NOT need TMS. Is that correct?
We currently have CMS configured and CUCM has a SIP trunk to the CMS servers. CUCM also has the CMS servers setup as a conference bridge (ad-hoc video conferencing for the CUCM registered video devices via this CFB in CUCM works). We configured CMS to allow Skype for Business calls coming in to join conferences/Spaces on the CMS (we also have the Skype servers setup to be able to call our CMS of course). Now I'm just wondering if we can do the reverse, for convenience...have a Cisco device join a conference hosted by our on-premise Lync 2013 servers, not a CMS conference.
