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1. Toronto Lync User Grouphttp://www.lyncusergroup.ca What’s new in Lync Server 2013

2. Toronto Lync User Grouphttp://www.lyncusergroup.ca What’s new: Deployment options Lync Online Lync On-Prem Lync Hybrid

3. Toronto Lync User Grouphttp://www.lyncusergroup.ca What’s new: Enterprise Voice • Sip Trunk and inter-trunk routing • M:N mediation server to Gateway routing • Routing resiliency • Caller-ID improvement • DID on-premise, user online, hybrid deployment • IP Phone support Office 365 • Enterprise grade telephony • Built-in component, no other server required • Scale with voice like other workloads • Centralized management

4. Toronto Lync User Grouphttp://www.lyncusergroup.ca What’s new: Conference • HD video – users can experience resolutions up to HD 1080P in two-party calls and multiparty conferences. • Gallery View – in video conferences that have more than two people, users can see videos of participants in the conference. If the conference has more than five participants, video of only the most active participants appear in the top row, and a photo appears for the other participants. • H.264 video – the H.264 video codec is now the default for encoding video on Lync 2013 Preview clients. H.264 video supports a greater range of resolutions and frame rates, and improves video scalability. • H.264 • MPEG-4 SVC Toronto Lync User Group

5. Toronto Lync User Grouphttp://www.lyncusergroup.ca What’s new: Web Conferencing • Lync 2013 Web App for web based meetings • Added support for application sharing, a/v through browser plug-in. • Added Microsoft Office Web Application Companion Server • On-click Lync meeting from Exchange 2013 OWA

6. Toronto Lync User Grouphttp://www.lyncusergroup.ca What’s new: Server Apps • Mobility • Response Group • Persistent Chat • Built-in Front-end web services • Voice over IP, Video over IP or PSTN call backs • Built-in Lync administration for easy deployment • Unified client • Built-in Lync administration for easy deployment • Disaster recovery support

7. Toronto Lync User Grouphttp://www.lyncusergroup.ca What’s new: Architecture Single Server AD • Runs all workload • No other servers required to additional functionalities • All in one box deployment • RBAC management Standard edition Toronto Lync User Group

8. Toronto Lync User Grouphttp://www.lyncusergroup.ca What’s new: Architecture Enterprise Edition AD Enterprise edition • Up to 20 server in a pool • Up to 200.000 users • Small footprint • Frontend runs all workload • Higher scale architecture • Loosely coupled architecture and SQL server mirroring support • Data, presence stored across frontend • Distributed users and services across the FE via UserGroups Toronto Lync User Group Toronto Lync User Group

9. Toronto Lync User Grouphttp://www.lyncusergroup.ca What’s new: HA Model • Front-End servers manage user state • Front-End server keeps synchronous backup copies of their data on 3 other FE server • Front-end servers and Back end databases are loosely coupled • Lazy writes to the database for rehydration and disaster recovery • Lync users automatically mapped to “Groups” • Each “Group” is dynamically assigned to 3 FE servers in a pool • When a users logs in, the Primary server will start servicing all users' requests • Changes to the user’s data will be synchronously replicated to secondary/tertiary as well • If primary server dies, then group would fail over to secondary (no data loss) • Writes to back-end occur periodically • When a server dies, all the “Groups ” assigned to that server will failover to different servers (load balancing) Toronto Lync User Group Toronto Lync User Group Toronto Lync User Group

10. Toronto Lync User Grouphttp://www.lyncusergroup.ca What’s new: Disaster Recovery • Pool to Pool Lync replication • No distance requirements • Manual failover between pools Failover Toronto Lync User Group Toronto Lync User Group Toronto Lync User Group Toronto Lync User Group Toronto Lync User Group

11. Toronto Lync User Grouphttp://www.lyncusergroup.ca What’s new: External User Access • Support for IPv6 addressing • Extensible Messaging and Presence Protocol (XMPP) • Skype federation • Rerouting and Resiliency for WAN • Directors are an optional role Toronto Lync User Group Toronto Lync User Group Toronto Lync User Group Toronto Lync User Group Toronto Lync User Group

12. Toronto Lync User Grouphttp://www.lyncusergroup.ca What’s new: Migration Pilot Lync 2013 • Install server or new client first • Multiple version of Lync server in the same infrastructure • Move users across pool with no users loss of data • Seamless migration for users Production Lync 2010 Toronto Lync User Group Toronto Lync User Group Toronto Lync User Group Toronto Lync User Group Toronto Lync User Group

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14. Toronto Lync User Grouphttp://www.lyncusergroup.ca Dim Bogopolskiy Lync 2010 MCM, Lync MSCTP dmitry@cms.ca References: Microsoft TechNET: http://microsoft.technet.com Jeff Schertz blog: http://blog.schertz.name Next Hop: http://blogs.technet.com/b/nexthop/ TechEd 2012 Australia: http://channel9.msdn.com/Events/TechEd/Australia/2012