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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

Mediation server improvements in Lync 2013


In Lync 2013, we have some improvement features that were partially present in the 2010 version:

  • M:N trunk routing: This is an evolution of the 1:N relation that enabled us to associate multiple gateways to a single Mediation server. Now we can associate the following:

    • A single Mediation server to multiple gateways

    • A single gateway to a single Mediation server with multiple trunks

    • A single gateway to multiple Mediation servers

  • Inter-trunk routing: With this feature, Lync 2013 is enabled to act as a gateway between two or more different PBXs or to connect a PBX to a PSTN gateway.

  • Caller ID: This is an option to translate the calling phone number from the E.164 format to the local dialing format (it may be required by the gateway).

  • Hybrid voice: The on-premise deployment is now able to work with users hosted in the cloud on Office 365.