SBM powered by Microsoft Lync™ Administrator's Guide 2011-11

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Ready the Data Center for an SBM Deployment
Domain Administration
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>.
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.
Add Test Users for the SBM’s Health Monitoring Pool
(Recommended)
The SBM Setup Wizard includes a test that verifies that branch Lync users can
successfully place calls through the PSTN. To generate the test calls, the SBM
draws on the user accounts within its Health Monitoring pool. Although the
pool can use existing user accounts, it is best practice to create test users just
for the pool.
Create two test user objects, setting them up as you would objects for typical
users at the branch office.
Create a DHCP Reservation for the SBM
(Recommended)
If you want to use a DHCP server to assign a fixed IP address to the SBM,
create the reservation before the installation.
The SBM has two Ethernet interfaces, but it typically uses Ethernet Interface
2. (Interface 1 is disabled at the factory default settings.)
To find the MAC address for the reservation, view the MAC address listed on
the label on the underside of the module. This is the MAC address of the
Ethernet interface 1; the MAC address of the Ethernet interface 2 is this
address incremented by one.