Tuesday, March 27, 2012

The Lync “To-Do” Checklist

Have you ever asked yourself:

  1. I have published the Lync Topology, now what?
  2. When is it required to re-run Step 2 (Install role components from the Deployment Wizard) on my servers?
  3. Have any of the changes I made in the Topology affected anything else?

A much over-looked feature in the Lync Topology Builder is the To-Do list.  This list only appears after you have published your topology and action needs to be taken directly on the server components to reflect the updated topology.  This means that more is needed than just Lync replication.

View if action is needed:

Lync To-Do - Publish - marked

View if no action is needed (Lync replication will take care of all changes):

Lync To-Do - Publish - not needed

After clicking on the “Click here to open to-do list”, a text file is opened and will explain the changes needed to your environment.

Lync To-Do - text file

Looking at this closer, I have changed the Simple URLs for one of my SIP domains.  The to-do list shows that I will need to update DNS, possibly modify my certificates and also run local setup on two of my servers: lablyncfe01.homelab.local and lablyncfe02.homelab.local.

This means running Step 2 from the Deployment Wizard on these two servers:

Lync To-Do - Step 2 - markup

After re-running Step 2, my Front-End servers will pick-up the changes to the Simple URLs and be able to answer traffic for them.

The Lync To-Do list from the Topology Builder is a great check to make sure nothing needs to change locally on your Lync servers to support configuration changes made in the Topology Builder.

7 comments:

  1. Great post, Tim. If you ever need to look at that file again, it's located in %userprofile%\AppData\Local\Temp\TopologyBuilder in a folder that matches the time and date you published the topology, such as \2011_03_22_00_35_27. The file is called NextSteps.txt

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