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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

Web services running on the Lync Front End


Depending on the form we have selected for the "simple URLs" used to publish Lync Front End web services (see the Infrastructure setup section in Chapter 1, Installing a Lync 2013 Enterprise Pool), the rewrite rules on the reverse proxy will change.

Lync installation creates rewrite rules inside the IIS site in the Front End Servers, so a little bit of testing is strongly advised. We have two sites (something we were able to see during the design of the Lync topology), an internal one and an external one (see the following screenshot):

The external site (that is, the one we will use to point to our reverse proxy) answers by default on two ports, 8080 and 4443. The internal website will be listening on the standard ports, 80 and 443. So, to summarize, we need to configure the rewrite rules so that users coming from the external network will call port 80 and 443 of the published server and be connected through the reverse proxy to the Lync Front End...