{"id":271,"date":"2012-11-10T06:25:00","date_gmt":"2012-11-10T06:25:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/atumvirtwordpress.azurewebsites.net\/?p=271"},"modified":"2012-11-10T06:25:00","modified_gmt":"2012-11-10T06:25:00","slug":"lync-2013-features-topology","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/avtempwp.azurewebsites.net\/2012\/11\/lync-2013-features-topology\/","title":{"rendered":"Lync 2013 Features &#8211; Topology"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In designing our Lync 2010 environment, I was a bit beside myself at the scale of the number of required servers to deploy a simple, yet redundant, environment. \u00a0Even cutting a few corners, we ended up with 13 servers for our Lync pilot. \u00a0Using the same design in Lync 2013, the total number of servers is only 9.<\/p>\n<p>Lync 2013 simplifies the back end database requirements by storing data in the front end servers, one of which acts as a master. \u00a0The remaining front end servers act as backups, and will automatically take over in the event of a failure. \u00a0For this matter, Microsoft suggests deploying a minimum of 3 front end servers for a scaled enterprise deployment.<\/p>\n<p>Director, which has always been optional but recommended, can also now be ignored altogether. \u00a0See the technet <a href=\"http:\/\/technet.microsoft.com\/en-us\/library\/gg425833(v=ocs.15).aspx\">supported topology documentation<\/a> for details and more information.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In designing our Lync 2010 environment, I was a bit beside myself at the scale of the number of required servers to deploy a simple, yet redundant, environment. \u00a0Even cutting a few corners, we ended up with 13 servers for our Lync pilot. \u00a0Using the same design in Lync 2013, the total number of servers [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[31],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/avtempwp.azurewebsites.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/271"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/avtempwp.azurewebsites.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/avtempwp.azurewebsites.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/avtempwp.azurewebsites.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/avtempwp.azurewebsites.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=271"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/avtempwp.azurewebsites.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/271\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/avtempwp.azurewebsites.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=271"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/avtempwp.azurewebsites.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=271"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/avtempwp.azurewebsites.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=271"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}