Topic Last Modified: 2010-11-02
Setting up the hardware and other components required in the infrastructure that you need to implement your topology requires that, prior to publishing your topology in Topology Builder, you do the following:
- Install the hardware for each component in the topology design
that you created and saved by using Topology Builder, including all
required computers (servers running Lync Server 2010, database
servers, servers running Internet Information Services (IIS), and
reverse proxy servers, as appropriate), network adapters, hardware
load balancers, and storage devices (such as file servers). For
details about how to define a topology that specifies the
components needed for your deployment, see Defining the Topology in
Topology Builder. For details about hardware requirements for
servers, see Supported Hardware
in the Supportability documentation.
- Ensure that the networking infrastructure meets requirements.
For details, see Network Infrastructure
Requirements in the Planning documentation.
- Set up Active Directory Domain Services (AD DS). Setting up AD
DS includes preparing AD DS and defining all components that you
want to deploy in AD DS. For details about preparing AD DS, see
Preparing Active
Directory Domain Services for Lync Server 2010 in the
Deployment documentation.
- Set up the required permissions for creating the file share.
Permissions for use of file shares by Lync Server 2010 are
automatically configured by Topology Builder when you publish your
topology. However, the user account used to publish the topology
must have full control (read/write/modify) on the file share in
order for Topology Builder to configure the required permissions.
To ensure that the file share can be managed properly during the
Topology Builder publishing process, the user or domain group that
the user is a member of should be made a member of the local
Administrators group on the machine where the file share is
located. In a multi-domain scenario, Domain A user or group should
be made a member of the local Administrators group on the machine
in Domain B where the file share will be located.
Warning:The file share for Lync Server 2010, Enterprise Edition cannot be located on the Front End Server. - Install and set up the hardware load balancer for Web Services.
With Domain Name System (DNS) load balancing deployed, you still
need to also use hardware load balancers for these pools, but only
for HTTP/HTTPS traffic. The hardware load balancer is used for
HTTPS traffic from clients over ports 443 and 80. Although you
still need hardware load balancers for these pools, their setup and
administration will be primarily for HTTP/HTTPS traffic, which the
administrators of the hardware load balancers are accustomed
to.
After you complete all of the preparation tasks as described in this topic, but prior to publishing the topology, you also need to: