Microsoft® Lync® Server 2013 Unleashed Second Edition

Summary

The Director in Lync Server 2013 hasn’t changed much from Lync Server 2010 other than being slightly deemphasized by Microsoft. There are still some clear advantages to deploying a Director, but there is no absolute recommendation for every deployment. Each organization will need to make that decision based on its business requirements.

Organizations are most likely to deploy a Director in their Lync Server 2013 environment when they fully understand the benefits of the role. For organizations with multiple internal pools, a Director can improve the environment by acting as a single point of initial authentication and offload that responsibility from the Front End pools. Other businesses might be more inclined to deploy a Director because ...