Install prerequisite hardware and software

Conferencing runs on Front End Servers of a Front End pool and Standard Edition servers. It has no additional hardware or software requirements beyond what is required to install those servers.

Note:
Lync Server 2013 uses Office Web Apps and the Office Web Apps Server to handle sharing and rendering of PowerPoint presentations. For details about installing and configuring the Office Web Apps Server, see Configuring Integration with Office Web Apps Server and Lync Server 2013.

Domain user who is a member of the local Administrators group

Supported hardware in the Supportability documentation

Server software and infrastructure support in the Supportability documentation

Determining your system requirements in the Planning documentation.

Technical Requirements for Archiving in the Planning documentation.

Create the appropriate internal topology to support conferencing

Run Topology Builder to add conferencing to the topology, and then publish the topology.

To define a topology, an account that is a member of the local Users group

To publish the topology, an account that is a member of the Domain Admins group and RTCUniversalServerAdmins group, and that has full control permissions (read/write/modify) on the file share to be used for the Lync Server 2013 file store (so that Topology Builder can configure the required DACLs)

Define and Configure a Topology in Topology Builder in the Deployment documentation.

Configure conferencing policies and support

Use the Lync Server 2013 Control Panel or Lync Server Management Shell to configure conferencing settings.

RTCUniversalServerAdmins group (Windows PowerShell only) or assign users to the [] or CSAdministrator role

Conferencing Policies in the Operations documentation.