Deployment size and distribution

We model a large deployment with three central sites, with one Front End pool per site.

Percentage of Active Directory users

We assume that 70% of all Active Directory users in the organization are enabled for Lync Server. 80% of those enabled users are logged on to Lync Server each day (80% concurrency). The concurrent users are the basis for the numbers in the rest of this section.

Active Directory changes

We assume that 0.5% of total users are created and enabled for Lync in Active Directory each week, and that 0.5% of total users are disabled from Active Directory and from Lync each week. 5% of users have at least one Active Directory attribute changed each week.

Active Directory distribution groups

We assume that the number of Active Directory distribution groups in the organization is equal to three times the number of all users in Active Directory. The distribution groups have the following sizes:

• 64% have 2-30 users

• 13% have 31-50 users

• 10% have 51-100 users

• 13% have 101-500 users

Voice over IP (VoIP) users

60% of Lync Server users are enabled for unified communications (UC) (that is, their phone numbers are owned by Lync Server).

Registered client distribution

65% of clients run Lync 2013 software, including Lync and Lync Phone Edition.

30% of clients running client software from a previous version of Lync.

5% of clients using Lync Web App.

If mobility is enabled, we assume that 40% of users are using mobility concurrently with the other previously cited registered client options. In this case the client multiple point of presence (MPOP) ratio is 1:1.9. If mobility is disabled, the MPOP ratio is 1:1.5.

Remote user distribution

70% of users connecting internally.

30% of users connecting through an Edge Server and a Director.

Contact distribution

The maximum number of contacts a user has is 1,000. Less than 1% of users have 1,000 contacts. Less than 25% of users have 100 or more contacts.

Average of 80 contacts for users with public cloud connectivity. Of these users:

• 50% of the contacts are within the organization. 10% of those users are remote users, connecting from outside the firewall.

• 40% of the contacts are public cloud users (such as users of AOL, Yahoo!, MSN, or Google Talk).

• 10% of the contacts are from federated partners.

  Important:

  As of September 1st, 2012, the Microsoft Lync Public IM Connectivity User Subscription License (“PIC USL”) is no longer available for purchase for new or renewing agreements. Customers with active licenses will be able to continue to federate with Yahoo! Messenger until the service shut down date. An end of life date of June 2014 for AOL and Yahoo! has been announced. For details, see Support for public instant messenger connectivity. The PIC USL is a per-user per-month subscription license that is required for Lync Server or Office Communications Server to federate with Yahoo! Messenger. Microsoft’s ability to provide this service has been contingent upon support from Yahoo!, the underlying agreement for which is winding down. More than ever, Lync is a powerful tool for connecting across organizations and with individuals around the world. Federation with Windows Live Messenger requires no additional user/device licenses beyond the Lync Standard CAL. Skype federation will be added to this list, enabling Lync users to reach hundreds of millions of people with IM and voice.

Average of 50 contacts for users without public cloud connectivity. Of these users:

• 80% of the contacts are within the organization. 10% of those users are remote users, connecting from outside the firewall.

• 20% of the contacts are from federated partners.

  Each user has 1 distribution group in their contact list. For performance testing, we assume that distribution groups are always expanded.

25% of a user’s contacts use XMPP.

Session time

The average user logon session lasts 12 hours. All users log on within 120 minutes of the start of the session.

Peer-to-peer IM sessions

Each user averages six peer-to-peer IM sessions per day.

10 instant messages per session.

Each message is matched by two SIP INFO messages and 2 SIP 200 OK messages (for the status indicators such as “<Name> is Typing”)

Presence polling

Overall, we assume presence polling at an average of 60 polls per user per hour. For each user, assume an average of:

• One poll per day of the presence of users in the user’s organization tab (but not Contacts list). Average number of non-contacts in the user’s organization tab is 15 users. Two contact card viewing operations per day.

• One presence poll every time the user clicks another user to start a conversation, estimated at once per hour.

• Six user searches per hour. Every time a search is performed, a batch poll is sent for everyone in the search result list. We assume the average size of search results is 20. If the search results stay on screen, the batch poll is refreshed every 5 minutes; we assume that there will be two such refreshes per hour.

• When the user opens or previews an email in Outlook, a poll of the presence of users in the To: and CC: fields of the email, estimated at five emails per hour and four users per email.

Presence subscriptions

When one user adds another as a contact, the first user is subscribing to five categories of information about the second user. Updates of these categories of information are automatically sent to the first user.

For each client, a single batch subscription request is sent to obtain the presence state of an average of 40 contacts, with an additional 40 dialogs to obtain presence for federated contacts.

Presence for members of an expanded distribution group is found through persistent presence subscriptions, not polling, and is modeled as 1 expansion per user for each 2 hours.

Short subscriptions happen when a user logs in, there is a batch subscription for all the user’s contacts, and then the user soon logs off. We assume 6 short subscriptions per user per hour, where each subscription lasts 10 minutes.

Presence Publication

Presence state is published at an average of 4 publications per user per hour, with a maximum 6 per user per hour.

Presence Document Size

The average size of a complete presence document is assumed to be 4K, with a maximum of 25K.

Address Book Web Query only (all queries performed by Address Book Web Query service)

Four prefix queries per user per day.

60 exact search queries per user per day. 40% of those are batched, with an average of 20 contacts per query. The other 60% of the queries are for a single contact.

25 photo queries per user per day. 24 are for a single photo, the other is a batch query with an average of 20 contacts.

One total organization search query per user per day.

Mixed mode, both address book file and web queries used. This is the default mode.

Only two types of queries go to the network, the photo and total organizational search queries.

25 photo queries per user per day. 24 are for a single photo, the other is a batch query with an average of 20 contacts.

One total organization search query per user per day.

Scheduled meetings versus "Meet now" meetings

60% scheduled, 40% unscheduled.

Of the scheduled meetings, we assume that 80% are assigned conferences, which are occurences of recurring conferences; 10% are one-time open meetings; 8% are one-time anonymous meetings, and 2% are one-time closed meetings.

Conferencing client distribution

For scheduled meetings:

• 65% of conferencing users use Lync 2013.

• 5% of conferencing users use Microsoft Lync Web App.

• 30% of conferencing users use earlier clients, including Microsoft Lync 2010, Office Communicator 2007 R2, Office Communicator 2007, and Microsoft Office Communicator Web Access (2007 release).

For unscheduled meetings:

• 70% of conferencing users use Lync 2013.

• 30% of conferencing users use earlier clients, including Microsoft Lync 2010, Office Communicator 2007 R2, Office Communicator 2007, and Microsoft Office Communicator Web Access (2007 release).

Meeting concurrency

5% of users will be in conferences during working hours. Thus, in an 80,000-user pool, as many as 4,000 users might be in conferences at any one time.

Meeting audio distribution

40% mixed VoIP audio and dial-in conferencing, with a 3:1 ratio of VoIP users to dial-in users.

35% VoIP audio only.

15% dial-in conferencing audio only.

10% no audio (IM-only conferences, with an average of five messages sent per user).

Media mix for conferences

75% of conferences are web conferences, which include audio plus some other collaboration modalities.

For these conferences, the other collaboration methods are as follows:

Note:
These numbers add up to more than 100% because one conference can have multiple collaboration methods.

• 50% add application sharing. We assume one users sends data at a peak of 1.1 MB per second.

• 50% add instant messaging (with an average of 2 messages per user).

• 20% add data collaboration, including PowerPoint or whiteboard In these, an average of 2 PowerPoint files presented per conference, with an average PowerPoint file size of 10 MB (without embedded video) or 30 MB (with embedded video). Average of 20 annotations per whiteboard.

• 20% add video. Of these users, 70% are in conferences enabled for multiview video, where each user receives 2-3 video streams.

• 15% add shared notes.

Meeting participant distribution

50% internal, authenticated users.

25% remote access, authenticated users.

15% anonymous users.

10% federated users.

Meeting join distribution

Users are simulated as joining the meeting within the first 5 minutes.

Authenticated/anonymous

70% of callers join as anonymous and are prompted for a recorded name. 30% join as authenticated users.

Call duration and music on hold

Average call duration without music on hold: 50 seconds.

50% of call-in users hear music on hold, for an average of 5 minutes.

Dual-tone multifrequency (DTMF)

15% of conferences that are dial-in only have phone leaders. 10% of mixed conferences that include dial-in users also have phone leaders.

20% of phone leaders use 2 DTMF commands per conference.

Announcement languages

Simulations use English as the announcement language.

Number of users in lobby

5% of dial-in users go through the lobby, and 25% of other users go through the lobby

Admitting from lobby

In simulations, all users were admitted by the presenter before client timeout.

Application sharing

Each user participates in 5 peer-to-peer application sharing sessions per month, for an average of 0.25 sessions per day.

File transfer

Each user participates in 1 peer-to-peer file transfer session per month (as part of an IM session), for an average of 0.05 sessions per day. The average session file size transferred is 1 MB.

Conferencing, Presence, and Archiving Policies

We assume that there is one global policy, 10 tag conferencing policies, 4 Archiving policies, and 10 tag presence policies.

Voice Policy

We assume that there is one global policy and 2 tag policies per site. 100% of sites have a site policy, and 30% of users have a per-user policy assigned. We assume one dial plan per site and two routes per site.