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For details specific to deploying Enterprise Edition pools the Skype For Business Server installation documentation should be used to accomplish this as it covers an Enterprise Edition deployment as the primary example. For the purposes of test or educational lab environments it is more efficient to use this option than to deploy Enterprise Edition servers which requires at least one additional backend SQL Server. This article will begin with the installation of a single Standard Edition Skype for Business Front End Server.

While optional, an Exchange Server 2013 deployment was also previously completed in this environment which will be utilized in future integration articles for features like Unified Messaging or Outlook Web Access integration.

The Root CA certificate was created with a hash algorithm of SHA256 and a 2048 bit key length. The CA configuration was updated to provide access to the Certificate Revocation List via HTTP, as explained in this article.

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A Windows Enterprise Certificate Authority was deployed on the domain controller to provide SSL certificates for internal services.The Forest and Domain functional levels were set to Windows Server 2012 R2.The default domain administrator account used to perform all steps is a member of the Domain Admins, Enterprise Admins, and Schema Admins domain security groups.Skype for Business Front End Server: A second virtual guest running Windows Server 2012 R2 圆4 Standard Edition and joined to the domain.Domain Controller: A single Windows Server 2012 R2 圆4 guest promoted to a domain controller for the new Active Directory forest root domain of.Physical Host: VMware ESXi 6.0 server running on an HP ProLiant D元80 with 96GB of RAM and 12 physical CPU cores.

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A joint Active Directory and primary SIP/SMTP namespace of is used throughout this new series of articles. Because many corporate networks still utilize disparate namespaces the difference between them may be specifically called out in these articles when prudent for educational reasons.Īs was also done in the previous Lync Server 2013 deployment articles a valid Top Level Domain (TLD) name was selected for the single namespaces to allow for the use of public certificates where desired, as described in this previous article. This decision was made based on two factors: that a single namespace is easier to deal with when performing fresh lab installations and also that this reflects more common best practices today. An important change from the past is that a single, flat internal Active Directory and SMTP/SIP domain namespace is now being utilized. Environmentįor these articles specific to Skype for Business Server 2015 a new lab environment has been created which is slightly different to environments used in the Lync Server articles. This format aids in skimming through the article for repeated installations.

Yet normal paragraphs without bullets may include optional steps intended to provide a deeper understanding of a previous action or cover the installation of optional tools or components used to aid in knowledge transfer of the topic at hand.

Steps starting with a bullet are mandatory to reach the same level of installation completion as the article intends to provide at the end. Although it may not have been obvious the usage of bulleted items is intentionally specific. Throughout this series of articles the same basic instructional flow is used as for previous releases. Starting with a single Standard Edition Skype for Business Server in a fresh Active Directory forest future articles will build on this deployment with additional component installation like Edge Services, Exchange Server integration, etc. Similar to past articles this series of basic deployment articles will be used to capture a specific environment to also be used as the foundation for many Skype for Business (SfB) Server 2015 specific deployment articles.

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