Reverse Proxy Planning
A critical piece in planning for Edge services is the reverse proxy. Unfortunately, this tends to be overlooked or considered a secondary task, even though it provides some important functionality to a deployment. Without a reverse proxy the following features will not work:
• Lync Mobile clients
• Address book download
• Distribution group expansion
• Web conferencing content such as whiteboards, uploaded presentations, and document sharing
• Device updates
• Dial-in conferencing page
• Simple meet conferencing pages
The first item might be a bit of a surprise, but the mobile clients for Lync use HTTPS web services to encapsulate the SIP signaling information. Organizations that neglect planning for a reverse proxy are ...
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