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Topic Last Modified: 2010-07-18

Microsoft Communications Server 2010 supports three simple URLs for conferencing—Meet, Dial-In, and Admin. You are required to set up simple URLs for Meet and Dial-In, and the Admin simple URL is optional. The DNS records you need to support simple URLs depend on how you have defined these simple URLs. There are three general options for how you define the URLs.

The first option creates a new SIP domain name for each simple URL.

Note:
When a user clicks a simple URL meeting link, the server that the DNS A record resolves to determines the correct client software to launch. Once the client software is launched, it automatically communicates with the pool where the conference is hosted.  This way, users are directed to the appropriate server for meeting content no matter which server or pool the simple URL DNS A records resolve to.

Simple URL Option 1

Simple URL

Example

Meet

https://meet.contoso.com, https://meet.fabrikam.com, and so on (one for each SIP domain in your organization)

Dial-in

https://dialin.contoso.com

Admin

https://admin.contoso.com

If you use this style, you must define the following:

Simple URL Option 2

Simple URL

Example

Meet

https://cs.contoso.com/Meet, https://cs.fabrikam.com/Meet, and so on (one for each SIP domain in your organization)

Dial-in

https://cs.contoso.com/Dialin

Admin

https://cs.contoso.com/Admin

With this option, all simple URLs are based on the domain name cs.contoso.com. Therefore, you need only one DNS A record, which resolves cs.contoso.com to the IP address of the load balancer of an enterprise pool. If you have only Standard Edition Server, the DNS A record must resolve to the IP address of one Standard Edition Server in your organization.

Simple URL Option 3

Simple URL

Example

Meet

https://cs.contoso.com/contosoSIPdomain/Meet

https://cs.contoso.com/fabrikamSIPdomain/Meet

Dial-in

https://cs.contoso.com/contosoSIPdomain/Dialin

https://cs.contoso.com/fabrikamSIPdomain/ Dialin

Admin

https://cs.contoso.com/contosoSIPdomain/Admin

https://cs.contoso.com/fabrikamSIPdomain/Admin

This option is most useful if you have many SIP domains, and you want them to have separate simple URLs but want to minimize the DNS record and certificate requirements for these simple URLs.