Setting up a new Lync 2013 Lab

Hi there
We currently have a Lync 2013 enterprise setup running our production environment. We have some problems and have decided to setup a new Lab Lync 2013 environment to do some more testing on and to see if we can at a later stage migrate over from the production
environment to the Lab one.
We are planning on creating the lab one as close to the production one as possible, same amount of servers, same spec etc.
How would we go about this and is this possible to run on the same domain? We will be using different SIP and FQDN but what about the SQL server and when deploying the topology, will it have any effect on the current production environment? Or should we
not use the same AD forest and completely separate it from our current network.
Thank you.

Hi Jaco1301,
Agree with Tek-Nerd.
In addition, you could add the additional pools in Topology Builder. Then publish the topology, run Lync Server Deployment Wizard on each Front End server in the new pools. But the CMS is still
stored on your production server.
Best regards,
Eric

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<<<<<<<<<<<<Incoming SipMessage c=[<SipTlsConnection_369013E>], 192.168.0.x:11535<-192.168.0.y:5061
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Additional information I was able to dig up using the Lync 2013 logger tool.
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The MSFT support person said to re-apply CU5 to the Director servers and reboot. Since this is impactful to the environment and I would have to do reboots anyway, I opted to go the route of installing the more recent update so....
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Running into some interesting issues with a new Lync 2013 deployment that I am having some problems finding troubleshooting steps and resolution for.
Topology
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Active Directory on Windows 2012, functional level is 2003
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Hi,
I have read the articles and i know how to move CMS to Lync 2013 , MY question is after moment CMS to Lync 2013 , the new DBs on SQL server will be mirrored automatically or i have to apply some procedure to make them mirror.
Regards
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Usman Ghani - MCITP Exchange 2010

Good morning,
If the new Lync 2013 Enterprise Pool you deployed has a mirrored backend, then when you move the CMS to that instance the database will inherently be mirrored. There is no requirement to perform any additional action or procedure.
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Kind regards
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Migration to lync 2013 select central management store - what name should be there?

hello
trying to migration from lync 2010 to lync 2013. populated the topogoly builder and was going to publish.
the name in select central management store has the name of the lync 2010 environment, but if I hit next it has my new sql server.
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