Originally posted on May 19, 2022 @ 10:00 am

Building and Publishing Lync 2013 Topology

In our last article, we learned “How to Prepare first Standard Edition Server and Install Administrative Tools”. In this article, we will learn “How to create a new topology and publish it in Lync Server 2013”.

Lync 2013 Server – Create a New Topology :

To build a topology, you need to follow the below steps:

1. Login to Lync Server 2013
2. Click on Start > Search for “Lync Server Topology Builder”
3. Radio Check “New Topology” and Click on OK
4. Save New Topology As – Enter a name of the Topology and click on Save
5. Primary SIP Domain – Enter a primary SIP Domain (“domain.com”). In our example, it is “uccollabing.com”
6. If you have any additional supported domain, enter the domain name, else click on Next
7. Define the first site – Enter the name of the first site in your deployment and a small description of it.
8. Enter City, State/Province/Country/Region Code details for your site.
9. New Topology was successfully defined – Click on Finish
   

   Defining New Front End Pool in Lync 2013 Server:

10. Define the New Front End Pool – Click on Next
11. Define the Front End Pool FQDN – Enter the Lync Server 2013 system FQDN
    (To get the Lync Server 2013 FQDN, Right Click on My Computer, Click on Properties and See Full Computer Name)
    Radio Check  “Standard Edition Server” since we will be using only one Front End Lync Server 2013 server.

    
    Click on Next

12. Select features – Check Mark the following and click on Next
    “Conferencing”
    “Dial-In”
    “Enterprise Voice”
    “Call Admission Controll” (Optional)
    “Archiving” (Optional)
    “Monitoring” (Optional)
13. Select collocated server roles – Click on Next
    (Since we are deploying in lab, we will have Mediation Server collocated on a Front End Pool)
14. Associate server roles with this Front End Pool – Click on Next
15. Define the SQL Server store – Click on Next
    (Since this is a Standard Edition deployment, the user information will be stored locally on the SQL Server Express Edition)
16. Go to C:\ Drive
17. Create a folder named as “share”
18. Right Click share folder and click on Properties
19. Click on Sharing Tab and Click on Advanced Sharing
20. Check Box “Share this folder”
21. Click on Permissions
22. Check Mark – Full Control (Allow), Change(Allow) and Read(Allow)
23. Click on Apply and OK
24. Click on Apply and OK
25. Click on Close
26. Define the file store – Make sure that the File Share name matches exactly the folder you have created in the above step. Click on Next
27. Specify the Web Services URL – Click on Next
28. Select an Office Web Apps Server – Click on New
    Enter Office Web Apps  Server FQDN and then Click on OK

    
    Click on Finish

    

    Editing Topology Properties in Lync 2013 Server :

29. Right Click on Lync Server and click on Edit Properties
30. Click on Central Management Server and enter the following:Administrative access URL: https://admin.uccollabing.com

    Under Front End Server to install Central Management Server on: Select Lync Server 2013 FQDN from the drop down menu and click on OK

    

    Publishing newly created Lync 2013 Topology:

31. Right Click on Lync Server and Click on Publish Topology
32. Publish the Topology – Click on Next
33. Select Central Management Server – Click on Next
34. Publishing Wizard Complete – Once the Publishing is completed and the status shows Success against each Step, click on Finish
35. Close the Topology Builder Menu

That’s all. In the next article we learn “How to Install or Update Lync Server System”.

Hope this helps!

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Avinash Karnani

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