Introduction to Microsoft Lync presented by Adam Jacobs at MUCUGL July 2011

1. Introduction to Microsoft Lync Adam Jacobs Lync MVP @adamjacobs http://imaucblog.com adam@imaucblog.com

2. Agenda What is Lync Server? Technical differentiators between Office Communications Server (OCS) Setup and deployment changes Introducing: The Central Management Store (CMS) Call Admission Control (CAC) Media Bypass Futures MicrosoftUnified Communications User Group London (MUCUGL) 2 28/07/2011

3. What is Lync Server?

4. What is Lync Server? Lync not LINQ The new name for OCS An IP-PBX or traditional PBX replacement A new breed of software-based telephony Fully immersed within your PC or *Mac desktop user experience – Office, SharePoint & Lync Client The heart of Microsoft’s UC stack – complimented by Exchange Server 2007/10 Unified Messaging *Unable to schedule conferences via Mac edition of Outlook MicrosoftUnified Communications User Group London (MUCUGL) 4 28/07/2011

6. Video calls

7. IM and presence

8. Mobility (including IM, presence and single-number reach)

9. Collaboration (desktop/file sharing, group chat and *dial-in conferencing)*Office Communications 2007 R2 MicrosoftUnified Communications User Group London (MUCUGL) 5 28/07/2011

11. Survivable Branch Appliance – a purpose-built appliance for branch deployments

12. Call Admission Control (CAC) – for the prevention of VoIP over subscription

13. Enhanced 9-1-1 (NA only) – CU1 delivers location functionality

14. Superior conferencing - voice announcements, lobby and an integrated client! (no Live Meeting client or Outlook Conferencing add-in)MicrosoftUnified Communications User Group London (MUCUGL) 6 28/07/2011

15. Technical differentiators from OCS

17. Export to Topology Builder (.tbxml)

18. Topology Builder

19. Tool used for .tbxml import, topology setup, modification and validation prior to deploying first server and publishing within the Central Management Store (CMS)

20. Communicator Web Access (CWA) depreciated in Lync – OCS 2007 R2 CWA can be deployed

21. Call forking is also depreciated, RCC still available for 3rd party PBX integrationMicrosoftUnified Communications User Group London (MUCUGL) 8 28/07/2011

23. Role-based access control (RBAC) for delegation of specific Lync tasks, incl. 11 out-of-the-box roles

24. Mediation role can now be collocated with front end role = minus 1 server Essentially one Standard Edition Server could support Enterprise Voice, IM, Presence and Conferencing for up to 5000 users! MicrosoftUnified Communications User Group London (MUCUGL) 9 28/07/2011

26. The CMS data is held within a SQL database

27. Centralises the administration of all Lync Server roles (including Edge servers)

28. There is a minimum requirement of 2 x CMS databases - 1 x master (RTC) and 1 x replica (RTCLOCAL)

29. RTC and RTCLOCAL databases are replicated

30. Resilient architecture – Front End Server CMS (replica) will continue to function where connectivity is lost to the masterMicrosoftUnified Communications User Group London (MUCUGL) 10 28/07/2011

32. CAC bandwidth policies can be set to control

33. Audio - max bandwidth (kbps) assigned for all/individual sessions

34. Video - max bandwidth (kbps) assigned for all/individual sessions

35. Policies are applied between sites, where multiple network subnets can be associated

36. Alternate routes can be utilised where over-subscription occurs, i.e. when local ISDN is at capacity then a route to PSTN over an Internet based SIP trunk could applyMicrosoftUnified Communications User Group London (MUCUGL) 11 28/07/2011

38. This is achieved by negating the need for transcoding between the Lync client or phone and the voice gateway

39. In this scenario the G.711 voice codec is used, instead of RTAudio

40. Recommended gateway vendors include AudioCodes, Dialogic, NET and FerrariMicrosoftUnified Communications User Group London (MUCUGL) 12 28/07/2011

41. Futures

43. *iPhone aka “iLync”

44. *Windows Phone 7

45. BlackBerry – now available BES v.5.0 SP3

46. Nokia

48. Single number reachETA late 2011 MicrosoftUnified Communications User Group London (MUCUGL) 14 28/07/2011

49. Lync for XBOX “videoKINECT” ETA late 2011 MicrosoftUnified Communications User Group London (MUCUGL) 15 28/07/2011

50. Lync Server + Skype = ? Jamie Stark Lync Server Product Manager MicrosoftUnified Communications User Group London (MUCUGL) 16 28/07/2011

51. Resources MicrosoftUnified Communications User Group London (MUCUGL) 17 28/07/2011

52. Thank You