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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

The reverse proxy


As mentioned earlier, the reverse proxy is required to make the web services of our Front End Server available to external users. The role of the reverse proxy is to publish resources to an external network, while creating a transparent and secure layer between the Internet user and our website and services. The connection will point to the records on the public DNS and so we will need rules to rewrite calls and direct them correctly to the internal servers.

Mobile clients make a heavy use of the web services of Lync, especially the Lync 2010 version that is basically an IM client (with push capabilities on some mobile devices).

The first decision we need to take here is about what kind of technology we are going to use for our reverse proxy.

A less costly solution could be the use of a reverse proxy on a Linux deployment or Internet Information Services (IIS) as in this post, Using IIS ARR as a Reverse Proxy for Lync Server 2013 at http://blogs.technet.com/b/nexthop/archive...