This document summarizes a presentation about supporting real-time audio and video in a virtual desktop infrastructure (VDI) using Lync Server 2013. It discusses different options for enabling audio and video like device remoting, codec compression, and media redirection. The presentation covers related topics such as the high-level architecture, video architecture, requirements, common issues, and support options. The goal is to provide guidance on setting up Lync in a VDI environment to allow for real-time communication features.
9. What is Virtual Desktop Infrastructure
The storage and execution of a
desktop workload (operating system,
applications, data) is centralized on a
virtual machine in the data center
Presentation of the UI is managed
via a remote desktop protocol (such
as RDP) or Independent Computing
Architecture (ICA)) to client devices
Remote Desktop
Servers
Remote Desktop
Client
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10. Virtual Desktops vs Virtual Sessions
Windows Server 2012
10
Windows Server 2012
Virtual PC 1 Virtual PC 2 Virtual PC 3 Session 1 Session 2 Session 3
Windows 7 Windows 8 Windows 7 Win Srv 2012 Win Srv 2012 Win Srv 2012
a.k.a. Remote Desktop/Terminal Server Session
SUPPORTED NOT SUPPORTED
23. Architecture Details
Windows Server 2008 R2 SP1Windows 7 Embedded
Remote Desktop Client Remote Desktop Server
Lync Plug-in (User A) Lync (User A)
Lync (User B)
RDP
IM,P,DataCollab
TPCP
A/VMedia
Signaling for all modes Lync Server 2013
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ITProceed: joined effort between Microsoft and User groups to fill gap that Techdays & Community Day left
You are now attending the Office Track sessions so if you missed rooms please change now or sleep quietly
Check the attendance:
We will have mixed public of generalists and specialists so we want to know how we are divided today
Who considers himself as a generalist for all Office Server products, in this case Exchange SharePoint Lync
Who considers himself as a specialist in Lync
Who considers himself as a specialist in Exchange
Who considers himself as a specialist in SharePoint
Who has a cloudy existence and his surname doesn’t end with Van Hybrid? So in short who is into Cloud and Office 365
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Speaker Notes:
Audience check: Primary focus of the Office Track products?
Lync
Exchange
Sharepoint
Office 365
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Credits to Stale Hansen for the great slide layout
WIM
Credits to Stale Hansen for the great slide layout
Slide Objective:
Speaker Notes
Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (VDI) is an alternative solution to deliver desktop capabilities to users. Essentially, Microsoft Windows 7 is hosted in a virtual machine (VM) on a virtualization platform such as Microsoft Hyper-V®. Then, thin clients are used to remote desktop into the images on a one-to-one basis; that is, one user connected to one image at a time.
The concept is very similar to Remote Desktop Services (previously called Terminal Services), which provides a number of user sessions from a remote desktop server.
Slide Objective:
Speaker Notes
One of our unwritten goals has been Remote Desktop platform independence, meaning that any customer, using any RDP technology, can use Lync in remoted environments.
Generic interfaces are provided at the client and server to enable:
Protocol provider independence
Platform independence
These interfaces will be published on the web.
Diagram key
ORANGE: Plug-in bootstrapping, remote session detection
BLUE: Dynamic virtual channels
GREEN: Video rendering, video geometry tracking
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Enable Media Redirection: http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/jj205154.aspx
http://www.e2esoft.cn/vcam/
Virtual audio cable
A few Dell Wyse and HP Terminals where explicitly tested and validated by Microsoft
Enable Media Redirection: http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/jj205154.aspx
http://www.e2esoft.cn/vcam/
Virtual audio cable
Enable Media Redirection: http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/jj205154.aspx
http://www.e2esoft.cn/vcam/
Virtual audio cable
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Joining meetings anonymously: that is, joining Lync meetings hosted by an organization that does not federate with your organization
Great article by Jeff Schertz on the topic: http://blog.schertz.name/2013/05/hd-video-lync-2013/
Lync Client video requirements: http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/jj688132.aspx