Lync 2010 and ACE load balancing

Hi there,
Has anyone deployed [or will be deploying] Lync 2010 utilising the ACE as a hardware load balancer. The ACE is not {yet] on the Microsoft list of supported devices for this product, but I am told this because of lack of documentation from Cisco.
The consensus from a few colleagues is that it should work as it did for OCS, which we have already deployed, so assuming that the set up and operation is similar, there shouldn't be much difference in the configurations.
regards,
Glenne.

Hey Glenne,
It seems you got that working already but I wanted to share this simple sample:
parameter-map type http PARAMETER
  set header-maxparse-length 65535
  set content-maxparse-length 65535
============================================
interface vlan 112
  ip address 10.198.16.71 255.255.255.192
  alias 10.198.16.124 255.255.255.192
  peer ip address 10.198.16.72 255.255.255.192
  mac-sticky enable
  access-group input anyone
  nat-pool 25 10.198.16.125 10.198.16.125 netmask 255.255.255.0 pat
  service-policy input ANS-MGT
  service-policy input VIPS
  no shutdown
============================================
policy-map multi-match VIPS
  class LYNC_VIP
    loadbalance policy  LYNC_POLICY
    ssl-proxy server SSL_LYNC_TERMINATION
    loadbalance vip icmp-reply active
    nat dynamic 25 vlan 112
    appl-parameter http advanced-options  PARAMETER
============================================
class-map match-all LYNC_VIP
  2 match virtual-address 10.198.16.125 tcp eq https
============================================
ssl-proxy service SSL_LYNC_TERMINATION
  key tac-key
  cert tac-cert
  chaingroup tac-chaingroup
============================================
policy-map type loadbalance first-match LYNC_POLICY
  class class-default
    sticky-serverfarm LYNC_COOKIE
============================================
sticky http-cookie ACE_COOKIE LYNC_COOKIE
  timeout 30
  replicate sticky
  serverfarm LYNC_FARM
============================================
serverfarm host LYNC_FARM
  rserver LYNC_SERVER1 80
    inservice
  rserver LYNC_SERVER2 80
    inservice
============================================
rserver host LYNC_SERVER1
ip address 10.198.16.93
inservice
rserver host LYNC_SERVER2
ip address 10.198.16.113
inservice
===========================================
Jorge

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