Microsoft Lync Server

For enterprise deployments of Microsoft Lync Server, Microsoft requires the use of an Application Delivery Controller (ADC). Tight collaboration between F5 and Microsoft ensures successful interoperability, scalability, reliability, and performance testing and provides joint documentation of the BIG-IP system and Lync Server product deployments. The result is a prescriptive solution that reduces the costs associated with deployment, management, and operation.

Benefits of the F5 Solution for Microsoft Lync Server:

• Gain mission-critical availability and secure application health monitoring for Lync Server implementations
• Maintain high service availability, even when one or more servers fail, because F5 ADCs can redistribute the workload between the remaining Lync Servers
• Enhance the Microsoft solution with a cost-effective site resilience capability for client-to-server connections

The F5 team worked closely with the Lync Server product team to ensure that the F5 platform could provide an optimum solution for reliably delivering Lync Server traffic. In addition, the F5 developer community, F5 DevCentral, includes thousands of customers, partners, and F5 engineers providing support, tips, tricks, and expertise specifically for Microsoft solutions.

All of the products in the F5 portfolio work together to help ensure the maximum return on Lync Server investments.