Thomas.Poett@TEAMS (MVP Teams and Cross-Tenant M&A/D Migration Expert Lead)

You can also use any PSTN Gateway or other SIP Trunk Provider... General deployment of a Branch Site including QSC SIP Trunk connection and dual SIP (PSTN) Gateway Objects. A SBS (Branch Site) can be deployed only with a Central Lync Site according your main Lync Design. It will not replace any associated Lync Pool (Std/EE) and do not hold any core Lync Database. More likely it is a SIP Registrar only, the main functionalities will still be provided from it Central Pool. There is are significant differences between Lync 2010 and Lync 2013, but in general the Voice Resiliency is still the same. e.g. In Lync 2010 you can still use the SBS for RGS or Conferencing Dial-Ins, but all this features are temporarily out of order, if the main Lync Pool is not reachable, also the User Presence. This is different in Lync 2013, where this features set will be continuously available. QSC SIP Trunk requirements Within the QSC SIP Trunk requirements are several aspects we have to take care and a...

Now it's time for the for the fir Lync 2013 site. I'm following up with the Topology blog i released earlier. I prepare the first Enterprise Server Lync 2013. Just in the Test Lab, I don't have the Load Balance yet, so what I did was, I gave the only EE Server two IP addresses. The second one is for the POOLLEFT, this is a supported scenario if you only have single pool server in place. First we need all the Pre-Requisites for the new EE Server in place, which I have listed here: PowerShell 3.0 PowerShell 3.0 is not a standalone product, it's part of the Windows Framework 3.0 http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=34595 .Net Framework 4.5 http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=30653 Windows Identity Foundation http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=17331 IIS Windows Desktop Experience SilverLight 4 Visual C++ 11 x64 Active Directory Management tools IIS: Static Content Def...