MicroNugget: What are Microsoft Lync Server 2010 Lync Topologies?

In this video, Tim Warner covers Lync Server 2010's topologies and server roles. There's an important distinction between Lync topologies and server roles — the first is the physical orientation of your server rooms and the latter is the actual logical bits moving around inside that.

Lync Server 2010 comes with a host of tools, applications, and resources that make your deployments easier to manage and more efficient. Tim walks you through the questions you should ask, and the knowledge you should have, before getting into Lync Server 2010.

Whether to use Lync Server Standard or Enterprise edition is one of the most common questions, and high availability is the differentiator. Standard edition is otherwise incredibly powerful, and will be more than adequate for most deployments.

Lync's site concept may at first seem familiar to Active Domain, but in Lync you have one central site in which most Lync functionality resides. It's possible to associate multiple centrals with multiple branches, but that requires a carefully created topology.

To create that topology, you'll want to use Topology Builder, the desktop application through which every change should be made.

That's only a handful of the tools and resources Lync Server 2010 offers, Tim covers many more of the server roles and topologies Lync supports.

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[mikeh]

That is a brilliant summary of Lync 2010 Tim - thanks for your efforts on this