Skype For Business Content Sharing; Vbss Support In Skype For Business Environments - Polycom RealPresence Group Series Administrator's Manual

Skype for Business Content Sharing

You can scroll and zoom content on the system monitor, and systems can control content received from
Skype for Business clients. RDP content sharing does not require the Polycom RealPresence Group
Series system to be in an audio or video call.
You can control shared content from a Skype for Business client using a USB mouse and keyboard.
The following content types from Skype clients are available:
• All Monitors: Displays content from all monitors connected to the system with the Skype client.
• Primary Monitor: Displays content from the primary monitor connected to the system with the
Skype client.
• Secondary Monitor: Displays content from the secondary monitor connected to the system with
the Skype client.
• Program: Displays content from a particular program connected to the system with the Skype
client.
For content to display properly, Monitor 2 must support progressive mode (e.g., the resolution should be
set to 1280 × 720p or 1920 × 1080p). Interlaced mode for Monitor 2 is not supported (do not use
resolution settings such as 1920 × 1080i).
For information on limitations of this feature, see the Polycom RealPresence Group Series Release Notes
for your software version at

VbSS Support in Skype for Business Environments

RealPresence Group Series systems support Video-based Screen Sharing (VbSS), a Microsoft protocol
for sharing content. In releases prior to version 6.1.5, these systems supported only legacy Remote
Desktop Protocol (RDP) for receiving content. Only systems registered to Skype for Business support
VbSS content sharing.
Your system can share VbSS content through HDMI or by using any of the supported wireless sharing
methods.
While Skype for Business supports VbSS sharing in point-to-point calls, RealPresence Group Series
systems support multipoint conferencing only. For point-to-point calls, RealPresence Group Series
systems are restricted to receiving legacy RDP content only.
The advantages of VbSS content sharing over RDP are as follows:
• Enables RealPresence Group Series systems to send and receive content using H.264 SVC
encoding; RealPresence Group Series systems using RDP can receive content only.
• Makes the session setup and video experience faster, with an improvement in the frames-per-
second.
• Works better in low-bandwidth conditions, even when sharing high motion content, such as 3-D
graphics.
RealPresence Group Series systems with the 1080p resolution option key enabled can achieve up to
1080p resolution. During a multipoint conference call while sharing content, you can expect the following
resolutions and frames-per-second.
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