Using DNS to Publish Office Communications Server
Office Communications Server uses DNS to publish Enterprise pools and Edge Servers so that they can be discoverable by other home servers and Edge Servers. Standard Edition Servers automatically publish their FQDN as A (Host) records in DNS; however, the FQDN of Enterprise pools need to be published in DNS manually by administrators. Administrators create an A record for the Enterprise pool’s FQDN, mapped to the virtual IP (VIP) of the Enterprise pool’s hardware load balancer (HLB). To federate with other partners and public IM connectivity (PIC) partners or allow remote users to connect to the internal Office Communications infrastructure, the external network interface card (NIC) of Edge Servers ...
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