Persistent Chat Server installation

As we said before, depending on your Lync deployment, the Chat Server has to be deployed as a dedicated pool (with Lync Enterprise Edition), or can be collocated (Lync Standard Edition). The Persistent Chat requires a dedicated instance on a database (mandatory in the first scenario), or could also be collocated on the local SQL Express (in the second situation). In our example, we will deploy the service on a Standard Edition Server, but the database will be on a separate SQL Server with a dedicated instance.

The following are the steps to be performed for installing the Persistent Chat Server:

  1. The first step, as we can see, will be performed in the Topology Builder, which is defining a new Persistent Chat pool ...

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