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Lync Server Cookbook

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Lync Server Cookbook

Overview of this book

Table of Contents (19 chapters)
Lync Server Cookbook
Credits
About the Authors
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

Certificates


Certificates are important in the Lync infrastructure. They are used to authenticate, sign, and secure communications. It is important to have a strategy on how to restore the Lync functionality where certificates are highly indispensable.

In the Don't forget the infrastructure – the greater recovery plan section, the internal PKI is listed. There is no point in backing up or restoring certificates issued from the internal CA, unless this is on the disaster recovery plan for the company. This section is worth reading if the PKI is on the restore list or if Lync is the only service we have to restore.

Note

Some say that it's faster or quicker just to request and assign new certificates, and they will possibly skip the entire sections. However, one might not always be in a position where the online CA is available; this is why a backup is recommended.

Getting ready

There is no way to create a backup of the systems certificates unless the right allow export of private key option has...