Topic Last Modified: 2012-06-25

Lync Server is offered in two editions, Enterprise Edition and Standard Edition. The different editions are intended primarily for different sizes of organizations. As shown in the following table, both editions support all functionality in all workloads, except for high availability and disaster recovery.

Feature Supported in Enterprise Edition? Supported in Standard Edition?

Instant messaging (IM) and presence

Yes

Yes

Conferencing

Yes

Yes

A/V conferencing

Yes

Yes

Dial-in conferencing

Yes

Yes

Enterprise Voice

Yes

Yes

Virtualization

Yes

Yes

High availability, failover, and disaster recovery

Yes

No