Topic Last Modified: 2010-11-04
Before you set up Standard Edition server and publish your topology, set up your hardware and system infrastructure by doing the following:
- Install the hardware for each component you have planned to
install in your infrastructure. This includes all required
computers, such as your Standard Edition server, database server
for other roles, and Edge Server as appropriate in your planned
design. Confirm that you have followed the recommendations for the
number and speed for network adapters. If you will be using
hardware load balancers, make sure that you have the proper
information from the vendor to configure them for use with Lync
Server 2010. If you will be using a file server or other server to
house the file share required by Lync Server, ensure that the
server is available and ready for the configuration of the file
share. 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 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 computer 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.
- Install and set up the hardware load balancer for Web Services.
For Standard Edition server, this does not apply to the Front End
Server, however, it does apply when deploying a Director because
you can deploy a pool of Directors. 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 perform the other preparation tasks, including installing Windows operating systems and other prerequisite software, setting up Internet Information Services (IIS) on the Standard Edition server, configuring SQL Server for other roles, and configuring DNS. For details about these tasks, see the following topics: