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Deciding how to deploy Microsoft Lync provides guidelines for choosing between these basic deployment scenarios for Lync Server 2013.

Beginning the planning process helps you understand how to get started planning an on-premises deployment and how the planning documentation works with Topology Builder.

Topology basics you must know before planning describes the basics of Lync Server topologies, including sites, server pools, and topologies that support high availability and disaster recovery.

Initial planning decisions takes you through the questions you must answer to decide what workloads and features of Lync Server to deploy.

Clients for Lync Server 2013 describes the different types of client software that you can deploy to your organization’s users, including computer-installed client software, web-based clients, and mobile devices.

Reference topologies shows three sample topologies that illustrate good topology design in three typical organization types, and explains the reasoning behind many of the decisions in designing those topologies.