Chapter 1: Planning Primer Planning for Your Organization
Microsoft Lync Server 2010
Published: December 2010
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Contents
Planning Primer: Planning for Your Organization (1)
Beginning the Planning Process (1)
Topology Basics You Must Know Before Planning (4)
Sites (4)
Server Roles (5)
Initial Planning Decisions (9)
Clients for Lync Server 2010 (10)
Reference Topologies (12)
Reference Topology With Limited High Availability (12)
Reference Topology With High Availability and a Single Data Center (14)
Reference Topology for Multiple Data Centers (17)
Planning Primer: Planning for Your Organization The topics in this section help you get started with planning your Microsoft Lync Server
2010 communications software deployment.
In This Section
∙ Beginning the Planning Process helps you understand how to get started, and how the planning documentation works with the Microsoft Lync Server 2010, Planning Tool and Topology Builder.
Important:
At this time, the Planning Tool that is described in this documentation is a prerelease
version. Final release of the Planning Tool is currently scheduled for the first quarter
of 2011. For details about the release candidate, see the release notes that
accompany the Planning Tool. Importing from a prerelease version of the Planning
Tool to the final version of Topology Builder is not supported. Note that the capacity
planning numbers in the Planning Tool are preliminary and are not supported for the
final release.
∙ Topology Basics You Must Know Before Planning describes the basics of Lync Server topologies, including sites and server pools. You must understand these concepts when using the Lync Server 2010, Planning Tool.
∙ Initial Planning Decisions takes you through the questions you must answer to decide what workloads and features of Lync Server to deploy.
∙ Clients for Lync Server 2010 describes the different types of client software that you can deploy to your org anization’s users, including computer-installed client software, web-based clients, and mobile devices.
∙ Reference Topologies shows three sample topologies that illustrate good topology design in three typical organization types, and explains the reasoning behind many of the decisions in designing those topologies.
Beginning the Planning Process
Important:
At this time, the Planning Tool that is described in this documentation is a prerelease
version. Final release of the Planning Tool is currently scheduled for the first quarter of 2011. For details about the release candidate, see the release notes that accompany the Planning Tool. Importing from a prerelease version of the Planning Tool to the final
version of Topology Builder is not supported. Note that the capacity planning numbers in the Planning Tool are preliminary and are not supported for the final release.
While planning a unified communications deployment may seem intimidating, Microsoft Lync Server 2010 communications software provides two valuable tools to help you:
