Book description
Over 90 recipes to empower you to configure, integrate, and manage your very own Lync Server deployment
In Detail
This book begins with the fundamental security-related tasks you should be aware of when working with Lync, before moving on to walk you through the authentication mechanisms. You will get hands-on experience with the steps required to integrate Lync with Office 365, Exchange, or trusted forests. You will explore how to use various tools such as the Bandwidth calculator, Lync resource kit tools, stress and performance tools, and planning tools that will help you to manage complex Lync features such as enterprise voice. This book will take you through designing a Lync solution right from assessing the existing infrastructure and capturing the requirements through to planning for user-training. Finally, the book concludes by showing you how to control and manage your networks and introduces you to various debugging tools such as Wireshark, CLSController, and more. The book aims at empowering you to successfully manage your Lync deployments with ease.
What You Will Learn
- Deploy dial plans, voice routing, and location policies to build a successful Lync enterprise voice infrastructure
- Understand Lync solution proposals, from requirement gathering and assessment to planning and design
- Deploy Lync Online and Lync hybrid and understand their tools and features
- Monitor Lync and diagnose issues from the gathered data
- Throttle and optimize your network to ensure quality of service for Lync
- Integrate Lync with Exchange to add features and services
- Discover more about the available debugging tools, such as OCSTracer and Wireshark
- Understand the steps required to upgrade from OCS and from Lync 2010
Publisher resources
Table of contents
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Lync Server Cookbook
- Table of Contents
- Lync Server Cookbook
- Credits
- About the Authors
- About the Reviewers
- www.PacktPub.com
- Preface
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1. Lync 2013 Security
- Introduction
- Controlling administrative rights with RBAC and custom cmdlets
- Hardening Lync Servers
- Hardening Lync databases
- Enhancing conferencing security
- Managing certificates for the authentication of desk-phones
- Deploying a secure Lync Edge
- Applying ethical walls for federation security
- Using Application Request Routing to configure a reverse proxy for Lync Server 2013
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2. Lync 2013 Authentication
- Introduction
- Configuring passive authentication for Lync
- Enabling two-factor authentication
- Adding the app password for mobile clients
- Authenticating with online services using DirSync
- Managing Windows Azure Directory for Lync Online
- Configuring server-to-server authentication
- Troubleshooting with client authentication logging
- 3. Lync Dial Plans and Voice Routing
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4. Lync 2013 Integration with Exchange
- Introduction
- Configuring the Unified Messaging integration
- Configuring OAuth between Lync 2013 and Exchange 2013
- Configuring Lync 2013 and Exchange 2013 as partner applications
- Configuring Lync 2013 to use Exchange 2013 for archiving
- Configuring Lync 2013 to use the Exchange 2013 Unified Contact Store
- Integrating Lync 2013 with the Exchange 2013 Outlook Web App
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5. Scripts and Tools for Lync
- Introduction
- Installing Lync prerequisites and more – Set-Cs2013Features
- Creating a fully functional voice configuration – Lync Dialing Rule Optimizer
- Switching between multiple Lync identities with a click – Profiles for Lync (P4L)
- Tracing made easier – Lync 2013 Centralized Logging Tool
- Identifying recurrent issues – Lync Pilot Deployment Health Analysis
- Managing phone numbers – Search-LineURI and Get-UnusedNumbers
- Managing Call Pickup Groups – Lync2013CallPickupManager 1.01
- 6. Designing a Lync Solution – The Overlooked Aspects
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7. Lync 2013 in a Resource Forest
- Introduction
- Planning a resource forest
- Using Exchange Online for a Lync resource forest
- Configuring FIM in a Lync resource forest
- Synchronizing forests with FIM
- Deploying Azure Active Directory Synchronization services (AAD Sync) in a Lync resource forest
- AAD Sync synchronization services and rules
- 8. Managing Lync 2013 Hybrid and Lync Online
- 9. Lync 2013 Monitoring and Reporting
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10. Managing Lync 2013 Backup and Restore
- Introduction
- Topology information
- Configuration information
- User database
- Persistent Chat database
- The Location Information LIS database
- The Response Group Services configuration
- Certificates
- Backend databases
- Voice dial plans, policies, and settings
- File services
- Don't forget the infrastructure – the greater recovery plan
- 11. Controlling Your Network – A Quick Drill into QoS and CAC
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12. Lync 2013 Debugging
- Introduction
- Using Snooper to examine log files
- Investigating Call Flow with Snooper Flow Chart
- Reviewing Lync information with OCSLogger
- Tracing from a command line with OCSTracer
- Customizing CLS scenarios using CLSController
- Testing our setting with Best Practices Analyzer
- Capturing network traffic with Wireshark
- Troubleshooting clients with the Microsoft Lync Connectivity Analyzer
- Verifying a deployment with the Microsoft Remote Connectivity Analyzer
- Index
Product information
- Title: Lync Server Cookbook
- Author(s):
- Release date: January 2015
- Publisher(s): Packt Publishing
- ISBN: 9781782173472
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