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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

Creating network bandwidth policies


It is a good thing to plan the entire CAC and QoS policy before beginning the configuration. Having done this, we can start adding the bandwidth policies. We could skip this and go directly to the Region tab, but once we get to the Site tab, we need to refer to these policies. Keep to the plan. Move left to right. Don't start this project unless the master QoS and CAC plan is complete.

Note

As an example, we will create three bandwidth policies in this walkthrough: Low, Medium, and High. The High policy will offer the best quality of audio and video. The Low policy will allow for a decent audio quality but no video. The Medium policy will be a balanced policy, allowing some video.

Getting ready

Begin this task only after carefully collecting data and when the planning of the entire QoS and CAC configuration is complete.

How to do it...

Proceed with the following steps for creating network bandwidth policies:

  1. Launch the Lync Server Control Panel with an account...