SBM powered by Microsoft Lync Administrator's Guide 2010-11

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Ready the Data Center for an SBM
Deployment
Contents
Overview . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . A-2
Domain Administration . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . A-3
Verify Your Groups . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . A-3
Add the SBM Computer Object to the Domain . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . A-4
Configure the SBM’s Service Principal Name . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . A-4
Configure the SBM Administrator Account . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . A-4
Add Test Users for the SBM’s
Health Monitoring Pool (Recommended) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . A-4
Create a DHCP Reservation for the SBM (Recommended) . . . . . . . . . A-5
Create a DNS Entry for the SBM (Optional) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . A-5
Example Steps . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . A-5
Add the Survivable Branch to the Lync Server Topology . . . . . . . . . . . . . A-19
Example Steps . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . A-21
Ready a Certificate for the SBM . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . A-46
SBM Administrator Installs a Certificate/Private Key File . . . . . . . . . A-46
SBM Administrator Creates and Submits a Request . . . . . . . . . . . . . . A-47
SBM Administrator Initiates an Automatic Request to Your CA . . . . A-48
Security Planning . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . A-49
Communicate Information to the SBM Administrator . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . A-50