Building an Edge and Director Topology

Topic Last Modified: 2011-01-25

Building the topology involves the following planning and deployment tasks:

• Planning   You need to define an appropriate topology for your organization and identify the components required to deploy it. These are standard steps in the planning process. The Microsoft Lync Server 2010, Planning Tool makes it easy to start the planning process, including the ability to easily make changes as your requirements and plans are finalized.

• Deployment   The topology that you define using Topology Builder is essential to the deployment of any Lync Server 2010 server. If you do not finish defining and publishing your topology by using Topology Builder as part of your planning efforts, you must complete it and make the information available from the Edge Servers before you deploy your Edge Servers.

You cannot deploy Edge Server components until you have deployed at least one internal pool, and you must install Topology Builder to deploy an internal pool. This section does not cover installation of Topology Builder because that is part of the installation process for the internal pool.

For details about these tools, see Edge Deployment Tools.