Microsoft® Lync® Server 2013 Unleashed Second Edition

Summary

All the features discussed in this chapter are compelling reasons to use Lync Server 2013 as an organization’s UC solution, but users have come to expect a certain degree of reliability with communications, especially with a phone system. In Lync Server, all the features can be made redundant and resilient to a single server or site failures so that users can continue to operate in the event of a malfunction.

The methods of providing high-availability and disaster recovery for each server role vary and are outlined later, but steps have been taken to ensure that users can always hear a dial tone when they pick up a phone. Some key advancements include allowing a Mediation Server role to use multiple gateways, allowing inter-trunk routing ...