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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

Persistent Chat Server installation


As we said before, depending on your Lync deployment, the Chat Server has to be deployed as a dedicated pool (with Lync Enterprise Edition), or can be collocated (Lync Standard Edition). The Persistent Chat requires a dedicated instance on a database (mandatory in the first scenario), or could also be collocated on the local SQL Express (in the second situation). In our example, we will deploy the service on a Standard Edition Server, but the database will be on a separate SQL Server with a dedicated instance.

The following are the steps to be performed for installing the Persistent Chat Server:

  1. The first step, as we can see, will be performed in the Topology Builder, which is defining a new Persistent Chat pool (the menu is the same even if we collocate the role).

  2. In a Standard Edition scenario, the value of the FQDN field is the name of the Lync Front End Server, where Persistent Chat will be collocated (see the following screenshot):

  3. The following screenshot...