Lync 2013 Hosting

Hi, 
I want to host a lync 2013 server for my external clients and users. What would be the considerations, and requirements and server roles to host a server?
My requirement is Web scheduling, meetings. Sharing, Text chats only for external users.
Now we have a local domain testdomain.local using Active Directory.
One live domain which is mydomain.com
Please suggest me the solution for Lync 2013 Hosting for external users.
Thanks

yes as Thamara said you have to install the Edge Role in order to login Externally.
check this for installing Edge server 
http://social.technet.microsoft.com/wiki/contents/articles/16931.installing-lync-2013-edge-server.aspx
http://www.orcsweb.com/blog/cory-granata/installing-lync-2013-edge-server/
For installing Reverse proxy 
http://blogs.technet.com/b/nexthop/archive/2013/02/19/using-iis-arr-as-a-reverse-proxy-for-lync-server-2013.aspx
http://jaapwesselius.com/2014/03/16/using-arr-for-reverse-proxy-with-lync-2013/
SAN
Certificate Requirements 
check
for SAN certificate requirements for External access
https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/gg398094.aspx
you required this names to be included in your san certificate 
SN = sip.domain.com
SAN = meet.domain.com
SAN=  admin.domain.com
SAN= dialin.domain.com 
DNS
Records which needs to be created.
check
this for creating External DNS records.
https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/gg398758.aspx
Check
this for adding Routable domain to Lync
http://blog.ucitsimple.com/2011/10/04/adding-new-sip-domains-to-lync/
For
detailed explanation check this great detailed blog how the Dns works for Internal domain and external domain. If your internal domain is different than external Domain 
http://msunified.net/2013/08/07/lync-client-sign-in-and-dns-records-recommendations/
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    TL_INFO(TF_PROTOCOL) [edge\edge0C4C.05E4::06/18/2014-15:43:49.379.0000002E (SIPStack,SIPAdminLog::ProtocolRecord::Flush:ProtocolRecord.cpp(265)) [962697980]
    Trace-Correlation-Id: 962697980
    Instance-Id: 2E61
    Direction: incoming;source="internal edge";destination="external edge"
    Peer: fe1.domain.net:61254
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    From: <sip:[email protected]>;tag=b736386270;epid=9bcee72318
    To: <sip:[email protected];opaque=app:voicemail>;tag=eced411395;epid=07C3F2A933
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    CSeq: 2 BYE
    Via: SIP/2.0/TLS 10.10.10.25:61254;branch=z9hG4bKC848F11A.A88BCA6858661A50;branched=FALSE
    Via: SIP/2.0/TLS 10.10.10.125:49156;ms-received-port=49156;ms-received-cid=401200
    Route: <sip:edge.domain.net:5061;transport=tls;opaque=state:Si;lr>
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  • Lync 2013 Multi-tenant Hosting Pack third-party solutions available for features listed as "Via Thirdparty"

    Hi,
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    5) Response groups
    6) Network QoS - DSCP
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    Regards,
    SR

    Hi,
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    Best Regards,
    Eason Huang
    Eason Huang
    TechNet Community Support

  • Lync 2013 Server / Roles & Components

    Lync
    2013 Server / Roles & Components 
    Front End
    User authentication and registration
    Presence information and contact card exchange
    Address book services and distribution list expansion
    IM functionality, including multiparty IM conferences
    Web conferencing, PSTN Dial-in conferencing and A/V conferencing (if deployed)
    Application hosting, for both applications included with Lync Server (for example, Conferencing Attendant and Response Group application), and third-party applications
    Primary store for user and conference data.  Information about each user is replicated among Front End Servers in the pool
    Optionally, Monitoring, to collect usage information in the form of call detail records (CDRs) and call error records (CERs). This information provides metrics about the quality of the media (audio and video) traversing your network for both Enterprise
    Voice calls and A/V conferences.
    Web components to supported web-based tasks such as web scheduler and join launcher.
    One Front End pool runs the Central Management Server DB, which manages and deploys basic configuration data to all servers running Lync
    Optionally, Archiving, to archive IM communications and meeting content for compliance reasons.
    Optionally, if Persistent chat is enabled, Persistent Chat Web Services for Chat Room Management and Persistent Chat Web Services for File Upload/Download.
    Back End
    Database server running Microsoft SQL Server
    Provide the DB services for the Front End pool
    Acts as backup store for the pool’s user and conference data
    Primary stores for other DB’s like Response Group
    High Availability for the BE DB is provided via SQL Mirroring
    Optional Witness to enable automatic failover for BE
    SQL Sever 2008 R2 or higher required for SQL Mirroring
    Edge Server
    Enable users to communicate and collaborate with users outside the organization’s firewall
    Comprises four separate server roles
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    Remote Access
    Federation
    Public IM Connectivity (PIC)
    Web Conferencing Edge – Enable remote users to participate in Web conferences with internal or remote workers
    A/V Edge – Responsible for secure relay of A/V media among internal, external, and federated contacts
    XMPP Gateway – Allows IM/P with XMPP federated contacts
    Reverse Proxy
    Simple URL Publishing – Required for users to join Lync meetings
    Web Conferencing Content – Users download meeting content (PowerPoint, Whiteboard, and Poll data) via Lync Web Services when in meeting
    Address Book & Distribution List Expansion – Required for users to download Lync Address Book and perform DL expansion
    User Certificates – Provides client certificate authentication via Lync Web Services
    Device Updates – Provides software updates to Lync IP endpoints
    Mobility – Provides connectivity for mobile clients via Lync Web Services
    Mediation Server
    Translates signaling and media between Lync Server and PSTN, IP-PBX, or SIP Trunk
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    Capacity
    Co-located = 150 Concurrent Calls
    Standalone =  1100 Concurrent Calls
    Persistent Chat
    Enable users to participate in multiparty, topic-based conversations that persist over time
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    Geographic DR is provided via stretched pool and SQL log shipping to replicate DB info
    150k provisioned users / 80k concurrent users
    Archiving
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    Peer-to-peer IM
    Multiparty IM
    Web Conferences, including uploaded content and events
    A/V for peer-to-peer IM and web conferences
    Web conferencing annotations and polls
    Monitoring
    Agent that runs on each Front End Server that collects and manages information from the Front End and Mediation Servers
    Stored on SQL Server DB
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    Office Web Apps Server
    External server leveraged for rendering PowerPoint slides within the Lync client and Lync Web App
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    System Center Ops Mgr
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    Feature
    Description
    Synthetic Transactions
    Windows PowerShell cmdlets that can be run from various locations to ensure that end user scenarios such as sign-in, presence, IM, and conferencing are readily available to end users.
    Call Reliability Alerts
    Database queries for Call Detail Records (CDR). These records are written by Front End Servers to reflect whether end users were able to connect to a call or why a call was terminated. These queries result in alerts that indicate when a wide range of end
    users are experiencing connectivity issues for peer-to-peer calls or basic conferencing functionality.
    Media Quality Alerts
    Database queries that look at Quality of Experience (QoE) reports published by clients at the end of each call. These queries result in alerts that pinpoint scenarios where users are likely to be experiencing poor media quality during calls and conferences.
    The data is built upon key metrics such as packet latency and loss, metrics that are known to directly contribute to call quality.
    Component Health
    Individual server components raise alerts by using event logs and performance counters. These alerts indicate failure conditions that can severely impact one or more end user scenarios. These alerts can also indicate a variety of other failure conditions,
    including services not running, high failure rates, high message latency, or connectivity issues.
    Dependency Health
    Failures can occur for a variety of external reasons. The management packs now monitor and collect data for some of the critical external dependencies that might indicate severe issues, including IIS availability, CPU and memory usage of servers and processes,
    and disk metrics.
    Exchange UM
    http://www.contactcenterarchitects.com/lync-2013-server-roles-components/

    Hi,
    Thank you for sharing the information. It is useful for others who not understand Lync Server Roles and Components. You time and effort are appreciated.
    Best Regards,
    Eason Huang
    Eason Huang
    TechNet Community Support

  • Office web Apps server Lync 2013 Certificate

    Hi,
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    Does the certificate on the on OWA server need to have owa.contoso.local and certificate principle name and wabweb.contoso.com as SAN? or only owa.contoso.local is enough?

    It really depends on how you publish the server to the internet. You have some options. If you are publishing this via a reverse proxy, internally you would have a private cert with .local on it and the public name on the reverse proxy.  If you are
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    when creating the farm via PowerShell make that both the internal and external URL and get a certificate with a single name on it of wabweb.contoso.com.
    Richard
    Richard Brynteson, Lync MVP | http://masteringlync.com | http://lyncvalidator.com

  • Lync 2013 Enterprise load balancing on the front end and edge pool

    Hi,
    I am setting up a Lync 2013 Enterprise deployment consisting of a Front End pool (x2 FE servers) and an Edge pool (x2 Edge servers).  I'm seeing some conflicting advice regarding load balancing using hardware or DNS for the front end and the edge.
    On the front end I have 2 internal DNS records 'lyncfepool1.contoso.local' each of which map to one of the IPs of the FE servers.  I've used my details to populate the Detailed Design Planner excel spreadsheet and am told that I require a HLB to load
    balance my front end pool.  I'm aware of the need to load balance HTTPS traffic internally (which will be done by TMG) however other traffic to the front end (SIP, etc) can be balanced by DNS only, and not require a HLB?
    Can someone clarify the front end requirement?
    Also - looking now at the edge pool - this site again have two edge servers in a pool.  We are using a total of six private IP addresses, two per edge service (2 x av.contoso.com, 2 x sip.contoso.com and 2 x webcon.contoso.com).  These will be
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    to one of the public IPs and if it can't connect, it will know to connect to the other service IP), however I want to clarify this set up, particularly the need to direct the external public IP traffic at the DMZ Edge IP specified in the topology builder.
    I've attached a basic diagram of the external/DMZ/Edge side which hopefully helps with this question
    Persevere, Persevere, Per..

    That is because you will always need HLB for a front-end server since it hosts the Lync webservices which use HTTP/HTTPS traffic.
    The description on the calculation tool also describes this correctly:
    Supports Standard and Enterprise pools (up to 12 nodes), with pure device-based load balancing or a combination of DNS load balancing and device-based load balancing (for
    Lync web services)
    You can use either Hardware or DNS loadbalancing for SIP traffic only, but you will always need a HLB for the webservices.  Both are applicable for the Front-End so you have either
    full HLB for both SIP and HTTP(S) traffic
    DNS LB for SIP traffic and HLB for HTTP(S) traffic
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    Lync Server MVP | MCITP Lync Server 2010 | If you think my post is the answer to your question, please mark it as answer so future visitors can easily find it.

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