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2. Lync Meetings & Edge: Why It Matters Why You Need It
11/21/2018
OFC-B340
Lync Meetings & Edge: Why It Matters Why You Need It
Adam Gent
Lync MVP
Principal Microsoft Consultant
Enghouse Interactive
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4. Agenda Meeting Functionality Business Requirements
Lync 2014
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Agenda
Meeting Functionality
Business Requirements
Planning Considerations
Meeting Policies
Edge
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5. Meeting Functionality

6. Lync Meeting Functionality
Audio and Video Sharing
Up to HD Quality
Multiple Video Feeds
Presenter Only Video Feed
Content Sharing
Presentations
Desktop
Applications
Whiteboard
OneNote
Polling
Q&A
File Sharing
Instant Messaging
Lobby
Recording (Client Side)
Clientless Access

7. Business Requirements

8. Business Requirements
What Is Been Replaced?
Dial In Conferencing
Hosted Conferencing Solutions
Microsoft Live Meeting
WebEx
GoToMeeting
Finding money for a Lync Deployment
What Functionality Is Required?
Telephone Conferencing
Collaboration
Polls
Q&A
Presentation
Recording

9. Business Requirements Cont.
Internal Participants Vs External Participants
What do “internal” participants need to be able to do
What do “external” participants need to be able to do
Remote Access Participants (Same as “internal” participants)
Federated Participants (People using Lync in another organization)
External participants (People not using Lync)
Training & User Adoption

10. Planning Considerations

11. Planning Considerations
Meeting Size
Voice Bandwidth: 100 Kbps (Max), 46 Kbps (Typical)
Video Bandwidth: 8015 Kbps (Max), 270 Kbps (Typical)
10 Person Conference: 81 Mbps (Max), 3 Mbps (Typical)
Concurrent Meeting Count
10, 10 Person Conferences: 810 Mbps (Max), 30 Mbps (Typical)
Meeting Functionality
Do all users need HD capability?
Do all users need a 250 seat meeting capability?
Internal Vs External Participants
Managed Network (i.e. MPLS)
Internet Connections

12. Planning Considerations Cont.
Dial In Conferencing
Number of Participants
SIP Trunks
Excellent solution for geographic numbers
Call Admission Control
Control bandwidth utilization
Voice
Video

13. Meeting Policies

14. Meeting Policies Allows different meeting functionality per user
Sample Options
Allow Voice & Video
Allow “Multi View”
Maximum Video Resolution
Maximum Meeting Size (Participants)
Allow:
Anonymous Participants
Recording
Polls
Q&A
Shared Notes
Desktop\Application Sharing
Collaboration
File Sharing

15. Meeting Organizers Options
Meeting IDs
Same for all meetings (From same Organizer)
Different for all meetings (From same Organizer)
What Can Enter The Meeting (Without entering the lobby)
Only the organizer
People invited from the presenters organization
Anyone from the presenter’s organization
Anyone
Who Is A Presenter (By Default)
People the organizer chooses
Anyone from the organizers organization

16. Edge

17. Edge Allows external participants to join meetings Reverse Proxy
Without it only access method is via Dial In Conferencing (If deployed)
Provides full modality access to a conference
Reverse Proxy
Required To:
Publish Web Client
Access Presentations
Share Files

18. Planning Edge Deployments
Bandwidth
Internal
External
Firewalls
Certificates
Reverse Proxies
Capacity (Multiple Edge Servers)

19. Single Site

20. Multi-Site

21. Take Away

22. Take Away Meetings will work without Edge Servers But….
External participants have limited functionality
Plan policies carefully
Everyone doesn’t need large conferences
Does everyone needs HD?
Plan Edge Server Deployments Carefully

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TechNet
Resources for IT Professionals
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