Getting Started with Microsoft Lync Server 2013

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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. Spis treści:
Getting Started with Microsoft Lync Server 2013
Table of Contents
Getting Started (...) więcej with Microsoft Lync Server 2013
Credits
About the Author
Acknowledgments
About the Reviewers
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Preface
What this book covers
What you need for this book
Who this book is for
Conventions
Reader feedback
Customer support
Errata
Piracy
Questions
1. Installing a Lync 2013 Enterprise Pool
Lync Server roles
Additional servers for external user access
Lync Edge
Reverse proxy
Installation steps and logic
A schema of our example environment
Infrastructure setup
Deploying certificates and DNS
Automatic client sign-in
Topology building
The Lync installation
The first phase preparing Windows 2012 for Lync 2013 and installing core components
The second phase preparing the Active Directory
The third phase Lync deployment
Preparing and publishing the Lync topology
Installing Lync Server components
Installing and assigning certificates
Public certificates on the Lync Front End
Summary
2. Understanding Front End Pool Pairing
Introduction to Front End pairing
Associating Lync pools
Failover and failback options
Managing server failures
Summary
3. Deploying Lync Mobility and External Users Access
The DNS configuration
The reverse proxy
Web services running on the Lync Front End
Lync Edge
Preparing Lync Edge
Configuring Lync Edge
Copying the CMS on the Edge server
Configuring for push notifications
Summary
4. Introducing the Lync Mediation Server
Configuring the Mediation server
Configuring a collocated Mediation server
Configuring a standalone Mediation server or a pool of Mediation servers
Mediation server tasks
Mediation server improvements in Lync 2013
Media bypass
Call admission control (CAC)
SIP trunk deployment
Summary
5. Getting Started with Lync Enterprise Voice
Direct inward dialing
Internal extensions users without DID
Dial plans
Off-hook dialing
Voice policies
PSTN usage records
Voice routes
Unassigned Numbers
Call Park
The logical process behind a call
Summary
6. Deploying Persistent Chat Server
Why Persistent Chat
Persistent Chat Server installation
Managing categories, chat rooms, and privacy
Summary
7. Choosing Lync 2013 Clients
What clients are available?
Full client (Office 2013)
Lync 2013 app for Windows 8
Lync 2013 for mobile devices
Lync Basic 2013 version
Microsoft Lync VDI 2013 plugin
Lync Online (Office 365)
Lync Web App
Lync Phone Edition
Legacy clients
Summary
Index O autorze: Fabrizio Volpe is a Lync MVP and an experienced IT professional, with more than 15 years of experience working in the IT department of large-scale banking and financial companies. He has been working as a network and systems administrator in various firms of the Iccrea Banking Group (one of the top banking groups in Italy) since 2000. From 2011 to 2013, before moving his focus to Unified Communications, Fabrizio received the MVP award for Directory Services. Over the past few years, Fabrizio has participated as a speaker at many events and conferences (both Italian and international). He creates IT-focused content on different platforms that have received good feedback. His works are available on YouTube (https://www.youtube.com/user/lync2013), on his personal blog (https://www.absoluteuc.org), and on SlideShare (https://www.slideshare.net/fabriziov). Fabrizio has published three books with Packt Publishing: Getting Started with FortiGate,Getting Started with Microsoft Lync Server 2013, and Instant Microsoft Forefront UAG Mobile Configuration Starter. He has also authored a successful free e-book, Microsoft Lync Server 2013: Basic Administration, available in the TechNet Office gallery (https://bit.ly/1jbzpfo), which has been downloaded more than 25,000 times. mniej