Unfortunately, the latest Windows Server 2016 is not yet supported. The hardware component was validated using the Planning Tool, the next step is to install Windows Server 2012 R2 (or Windows Server 2012) Standard or Datacenter to support Skype for Business Server 2015, last but not least we must make sure that a Windows Update was run and all updates are in place. A registration will be required, and an ISO file will be available to download. The first step is to download the product, for this article we are going to download the evaluation from here. In this article, we are going to start deploying Skype for Business Server 2015.
During the planning phase we gather information about the future Skype for Business environment, and the Planning Tool provided the hardware and logical information about servers and roles.
