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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

Lync Edge


Lync Edge is the point where we make services such as Access Edge, A/V authentication, A/V Edge, Web Conferencing Edge, and XMPP proxy service available to the external users. We have the possibility to bind such services to three public addresses on the external interface of Edge, or to join them to three different ports joined to a single public IP. The decision between the configurations has an impact on costs and on the accessibility of the services.

The first solution requires three valuable public IPs dedicated to Edge, while the second one requires only one Internet address.

However, the latter design is more prone to difficulties that the access might face from the external networks because the ports that the external users will be required to open on Edge are out of the standard TCP/80 and TCP/443 that are allowed by almost all the enterprise proxies and firewalls.

Preparing Lync Edge

To deploy Lync Edge, we have to comply with the following requirements:

  • Two network interfaces...