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Getting Started with Microsoft Lync Server 2013

By : Fabrizio Volpe
Book Image

Getting Started with Microsoft Lync Server 2013

By: Fabrizio Volpe

Overview of this book

Lync 2013 is a product that enables users to IM, and have audio and video conferences, including multi-party video. The mobile client permits the use of all the features in every device with an access-from-everywhere logic. The company’s Active Directory users, SharePoint documents, and Exchange objects integrate with Lync to deliver most of the advanced features. Getting Started with Microsoft Lync Server 2013 will give you all the relevant information you need to enable voice features, select the best Lync client in different scenarios, make your Lync services available to the external users, empower the collaborative environment of Persistent Chat Server rooms, and to build an affordable unified communication system. Getting Started with Microsoft Lync Server 2013 will explore all the concepts you need to administer and plan a Lync 2013 environment in a short time, explaining the background mechanisms of the system.It begins with the deployment of a Lync frontend and SQL mirroring solution, including all the requirements and tips clearly laid out. It proceeds with the Front End pairing, mobility, and mediation server deployment with media bypass. It covers a core chapter about Enterprise Voice with a closing part on Persistent Chat and on clients with their characteristics. Getting Started with Microsoft Lync Server 2013 will give you all the relevant information you need to enable voice features, and will help to select the best Lync client in different scenarios.
Table of Contents (15 chapters)
Getting Started with Microsoft Lync Server 2013
Credits
About the Author
Acknowledgments
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

Chapter 4. Introducing the Lync Mediation Server

After the previous chapter, dedicated to Lync mobility and external users access, we will introduce the Lync Mediation server that is part of every voice deployment, along with the dial plans, voice policies, and the voice routes that will be explained in Chapter 5, Getting Started with Lync Enterprise Voice.

Starting with Lync 2010, Microsoft has added some essential features regarding the enterprise voice, such as resiliency (users can continue making and receiving calls if the server, where they are homed becomes unavailable), call number manipulation (required to present the telephone numbers from Lync in a format that is compatible with the different hardware and telephonic providers), and media bypass (that is explained later in this chapter).

A big part of the "magic" is due to the Mediation server role of Lync. Mediation servers are responsible to manage the communication between the Front End Servers and the gateways, such as a SIP...