Getting Started with Microsoft Lync Server 2013

Everything you need for understanding and working with Lync 2013 in a fast-paced manner

Overview

• Understand and deliver the top required features such as Enterprise Voice, Persistent Chat, and mobility with step-by-step guides
• Deploy a working environment applying load balancing and fault tolerant solutions
• Create a collaborative space around the user’s needs, containing all the information and document history using the Persistent Chat Server

In Detail

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.

What you will learn from this book

• Install a Lync 2013 Enterprise Pool with SQL mirroring
• Make Lync available to external users in a secure manner with reverse proxy and Edge
• Install and optimize the mediation server role
• Get started with Enterprise Voice and user phone numbers
• Organize Voice Policies, PSTN Usage Records, and Voice Routes
• Deploy a Persistent Chat Server with categories, chat rooms, and privacy
• Select the best available client for the different usage scenarios

Approach

This book has a practical approach with a lot of step-by-step guides and explanations as to where and why we’re doing the various operations.

Who this book is written for

Getting Started with Microsoft Lync Server 2013 is a starting point for system administrators, IT pros, unified communication technicians, and decision makers in companies or in the consultancy business. For people who have never managed Lync (or a U.C. product), the book will guide you through the basic concepts and mistakes. If you are already managing a Lync deployment you will find important explanations and ideas put together in a single text. If your work requires evaluating a Lync project this book offers parameters and suggestions to plan a project to deliver the best results.

Fabrizio Volpe

Fabrizio Volpe has been working with the Iccrea Banking Group since 2000, as a network and systems administrator.

He is part of the Microsoft Technologies workgroup in Iccrea Banca, managing more than 2000 users at their central site, a nationwide network of branch offices, and providing services for more than 400 banks.

Since 2011, he has been awarded MVP on Directory Services from Microsoft, and is focused on Windows systems and security, unified communication, and virtualization.

Prior to the Iccrea Group, Fabrizio has collaborated with various IT companies, focused on Windows, security, networking, and messaging / unified communication products.

Since 2000, he has presented many events and conferences (Italian and international ones).

Fabrizio is committed to create contents that are accessible to a wide number of people, so he publishes content really often on SlideShare (http://www.slideshare.net/fabriziov), on his Lync2013 channel on YouTube (http://www.youtube.com/user/lync2013), and on his personal blog (http://blog.lync2013.org).