Mastering Microsoft Lync Server 2013.

Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright -- Contents -- Part I Fundamentals -- Chapter 1 What's in Lync? -- Understanding the Lync 2013 Client -- Connecting via the Lync 2013 Client -- Communicating via the Lync 2013 Client -- Collaboration via the Lync 2013 Client -- Understanding Lync Server 2013 -- Managing Lync Server 2013 -- Understanding the Voice Capabilities -- Understanding the Unified Communications Managed API Capabilities -- Unwrapping the SDK -- The Bottom Line -- Chapter 2 Standards and Protocols -- Understanding SIP's Origins -- Circuit-Switched Networks -- Packet-Switched Networks -- The Session Initiation Protocol in Depth -- Using SIP -- SIP Protocol Formatting -- Providing Presence -- Sending an Instant Message -- Understanding Lync 2013 Codecs and Standards -- The Bottom Line -- Chapter 3 Security -- Securing External Access -- Edge Security Components -- Understanding Core Security -- Media and Signaling Security -- Authentication -- Certificates -- Providing Security Administratively -- Client-Version Filtering -- Message Hygiene -- Configuring Antivirus Scanning -- Disclaimers -- PIN Policy -- Federation and How to Control It -- The Bottom Line -- Chapter 4 Clients -- Lync User Clients -- Lync 2013 -- Lync Web App -- Windows Store App -- Lync 2013 Basic -- Client Configuration -- Discovery and Connection -- Persistent Chat Client -- Lync Conferencing Clients -- Legacy Clients -- The Bottom Line -- Part 2 Getting Lync Up and Running -- Chapter 5 Planning Your Deployment -- Capturing the Requirements -- Understanding What Is Wanted -- Understanding What Is Currently in Place -- Using the Capacity Planning Toolset -- Defining a Topology with the Planning Tool -- The Stress and Performance Tool -- Capacity Calculator -- Bandwidth Calculator -- Using Topology Builder -- The Chicken or the Egg?.

Using Topology Builder -- Installation Prerequisites -- Recommended Hardware -- Software Prerequisites -- High Availability -- The Bottom Line -- Chapter 6 Installation -- Getting Up and Running with Standard Edition -- Configuring Windows Server 2008 R2 SP1 -- Preparing Active Directory -- Installing the Standard Edition Server -- Post-Deployment Tasks -- Basic Administrative Permissions -- Testing the Installation -- Installing Updates -- Kerberos Authentication Configuration -- Enabling Your First Pair of Users -- Rolling Out the Client -- Configuring External Access -- Installing the Director -- Configuring the Reverse Proxy -- Installing the Edge Server -- Enterprise Deployments -- Working in Large Active Directories -- Delegating Setup Permissions -- Stand-alone SQL -- Mirrored SQL -- Installation of Persistent Chat -- Configuring an Office Web Apps Server -- Considerations for Branches -- Automating Installation Using PowerShell -- The Bottom Line -- Chapter 7 Migration and Upgrades -- Understanding Migration -- Coexistence -- Considering Client Pain Points -- Policies -- Meetings -- Interoperability -- Migrating to Lync -- Preparing -- Deploying the First Lync Pool -- Merging the OCS and Lync Topology -- Configuring the First Lync Pool -- Testing and Migrating Pilot Users -- Adding Lync Edge and Director Roles -- Moving the First Lync Pool from Pilot to Production -- Postmigration Steps -- Decommissioning Legacy Systems -- The Bottom Line -- Part 3 Administration -- Chapter 8 Introduction to PowerShell, the Lync Management Shell, and Regular Expressions -- Why Use PowerShell? -- Understanding Command Syntax -- Finding Help -- Cmdlet versus Command -- Shells versus the Prompt -- Introducing PowerShell Coding -- PowerShell Variables and Data Types -- Script Control -- Input Parameters -- Output Parameters -- PowerShell V3.

Remoting -- The Integrated Scripting Environment -- Managing Output -- Lists and Tables -- Output to File -- Graphical Display and Filtering with Out-GridView -- Running Scripts -- Running Scheduled Scripts -- Learning from the GUI -- Example Script Development -- Regular Expressions -- Understanding Regex -- Regex within Lync -- The Bottom Line -- Chapter 9 Role-Based Access Control -- RBAC Overview -- Roles and Scopes -- Lync Roles and PowerShell -- Understanding Lync's Standard Roles -- CSAdministrator -- CSUserAdministrator -- CSServerAdministrator -- CSViewOnlyAdministrator -- CSArchivingAdministrator -- CSHelpDesk -- CSVoiceAdministrator -- CSResponseGroupAdministrator -- CSResponseGroupManager -- CSLocationAdministrator -- CsPersistentChatAdministrator -- Creating New Roles -- Planning Combinations -- Creating the Role -- Manipulating Roles -- Assigning and Removing Roles -- Deleting Roles -- Filtering Specific Roles -- Adding and Removing Cmdlets or Scripts from Roles -- Reporting on Roles -- The Bottom Line -- Chapter 10 User Administration -- User Configuration Basics -- Enabling and Disabling -- Making Changes to Lync Users -- Understanding Lync Policies -- In-Band Provisioning -- Understanding Where Policies Apply -- What about Group Policy? -- Manipulating Policies -- Viewing Policies -- Creating and Assigning Policies -- Editing Existing Policies -- Removing or Resetting Policies -- Choosing the Right Policy for the Job -- ClientPolicy -- ClientVersionPolicy -- ClientVersionConfiguration -- PrivacyConfiguration -- PresencePolicy -- UserServicesConfiguration -- The Bottom Line -- Chapter 11 Archiving and Monitoring -- Deploying the Architecture for Archiving and Monitoring -- Prerequisites -- Installation -- Database Support, Architecture, and Capacity -- High Availability -- Policy Configuration.

Deploying the Reporting Pack -- Interpreting the Monitoring Server Reports -- Understanding Voice Quality -- MOS Values by Codec -- Viewing the Reports -- Service Monitoring with the Management Pack -- The Bottom Line -- Chapter 12 Troubleshooting -- Troubleshooting Basics -- Confirming a Network Connection -- Confirming Secure Connectivity -- Checking for Audio/Video Peer-to-peer Connectivity -- Introducing Tracing -- Using Centralized Logging -- Using snooper.exe -- Diagnostic Message Text -- Other Troubleshooting Options -- Investigating Web Components -- Performance Counters -- Synthetic Transactions -- Monitoring Reports -- Client Side -- The Bottom Line -- Part 4 Voice -- Chapter 13 Getting Started with Voice -- The Back Story -- Understanding the Voice Capabilities -- Private Line -- Malicious Call Trace -- Media Bypass -- Understanding the Voice Architecture -- Understanding Mediation Servers -- High Availability and Resiliency for Voice -- Configuring Enterprise Voice -- Configuring the Client Enterprise Voice Options -- Configuring the Server Enterprise Voice Options -- The Bottom Line -- Chapter 14 Call Admission Control -- Understanding Call Admission Control -- How Call Admission Control Works -- Where Call Admission Control Works -- Underlying Network Requirements -- Designing for Call Admission Control -- Configuring Call Admission Control -- Configuring the Global Setting -- Defining the Policy Profile Settings -- Defining Regions -- Defining Sites -- Defining Subnets -- Defining Region Links -- Assigning Region Routes -- Assigning Policies -- Identifying Calls on a Network -- Reporting on Call Admission Control -- The Bottom Line -- Chapter 15 E911 and Location Information Services -- Understanding E911 -- Configuring E911 -- Configuring PSTN Usage -- Configuring Location Policies.

Defining the SIP Trunk -- Configuring the Voice Route -- Location Information -- Configuring the Location Database -- Using Secondary Location Databases -- Retrieving the Location Data by a Client -- Roaming Users -- Placing a Call -- Testing an E911 Call -- The Bottom Line -- Chapter 16 Extended Voice Functionality -- Dial-In Conferencing -- Understanding Dial-In Conferencing in Lync -- Configuring Dial-in Conferencing Features -- Implementing Dial-In Conferencing -- Using Dial-In Conferencing -- Response Groups -- Understanding Response Groups in Lync -- Implementing Response Groups -- Using Response Groups -- Call Park -- Understanding Call Park in Lync -- Implementing Call Park -- Using Call Park -- Unassigned Numbers -- Using Unassigned Numbers in Lync -- Implementing Unassigned Numbers -- The Bottom Line -- Part 5 Integration -- Chapter 17 Exchange and SharePoint -- Integrating Lync with Exchange -- Configuring Exchange Integration Prerequisites -- The Voice Mail Platform for Lync -- Free/Busy, and Other Integration -- Outlook Web App Integration -- Understanding and Configuring the Unified Contact Store -- Integrating into Exchange for Compliance Archiving -- Making Use of High-Resolution Photos in Lync -- Integrating Lync with SharePoint -- IM and Presence within Sites -- Skill Search -- Photos -- Converting Recorded Meetings into SP Asset Libraries -- Business Process Communication Workflows -- Lync Development -- Unified Communications Managed API 4.0 -- Microsoft SIP Processing Language -- Lync 2013 API -- What's New in UCMA 4.0? -- Example Project: Grey Bot -- Step 1: Configure Lync Trusted Application Server/Pool -- Step 2: Configure Lync Trusted Application -- Step 3: Configure Lync Trusted Application Endpoint -- Step 4: Create the Grey Bot Project in Visual Studio.

Step 5: Set Up the Grey Bot Project to Use UCMA API.