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Ready the Data Center for an SBM Deployment

Domain Administrator Tasks

This section describes the tasks that a member of the Domain Admins group

must complete to ready the domain for an SBM deployment. These steps must

be completed before the CS Administrator adds the SBM to the Lync Server

topology.

Verify Your Groups

First, ensure that your domain has the CS and RTC groups, which should have

been added to the domain with the deployment of Microsoft Lync Server 2010.

Add the SBM Computer Object to the Domain

Next, you must add the SBM computer account to the domain. Make sure that

RTCUniversalSBATechnicians are allowed to join the SBM to the domain. Also

communicate the SBM’s hostname to the CS Administrator, who will need to

specify the SBM’s fully qualified domain name (FQDN) when adding it to the

Lync Server topology.

Configure the SBM’s Service Principal Name

The SBM must use its FQDN for its service principal name (SPN). Without

this SPN, the CS Administrators cannot properly join the SBM to the Lync

Server topology.

Open an ASDI editor and connect to the default naming context. Navigate to

the SBM in the Computers folder and edit its properties, specifying this value

for servicePrincipalName: HOST/<SBM FQDN>. For example, you might specify

HOST/seattle-sbm.example.hp.com.

Configure the SBM Administrator Account

Set up the account for the person who will perform the initial setup of the

SBM, which can be an existing account or a new one. To give this user the

right to join the SBM to the domain and to manage the device locally, make

the user a member of the RTCUniversalSBATechnicians group.