The Starting Scenario
A typical proof of concept for Lync 2013, including a good part of the product's features. Fedaration and autodiscovery for mobile devices where not available in the starting deployment.
The project had some aspects that I had to keep in mind:
- Lync will have to coexist with a Cisco CUCM legacy environment for a long time
- Certificates have to cost as low as possible
- Lync is deployed in a resource forest, with trust relations with users' domains / forests
- Multiple SIP domain are involved.
- All of the Lync 2013 features, including Lync / Skype federation has to be available for the aforementioned domains
Some Hints on the Solutions I have Applied
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A Microsoft Forefront Threat Management Gateway (TMG) was deployed has reverse proxy for the PoC. I have keept it, adding hair-pinning for mobiles coming from the internal Wi-Fi network - http://blogs.technet.com/b/nexthop/archive/2012/11...
- I have used the tips I have listed here in a post on my blog ( http://blog.lync2013.org/378/ ) to lower the costs of the required certificates
- I preferred a solution that enabled me too keep the existing paired Standard Edition Front Ends and adding a pool of Lync Directors to gain a little bit of resiliency (as I outlined here http://blog.lync2013.org/why-i-added-a-lync-direct... )
- Edge servers will use DNS load balancing, while Lync's web services will use a load balancer