Cisco Cisco Expressway
■
Unified CM
■
Internal Cisco Collaboration endpoints registered to Unified CM
■
A dedicated Gateway Expressway-C (refered to as Gateway Expressway)
■
Cisco Expressway-C and Cisco Expressway-E for TURN server support
Example Values in this Deployment
The example presented uses the following values:
■
The Lync environment uses
example.com
as the SIP domain. The SIP domain for Lync need not be the same as
the AD domain of Lync clients (the Lync login domain used in the login user name may be different from the
SIP domain used in the sign-in address).
SIP domain used in the sign-in address).
■
The Cisco video network’s domain is
video.example.com
(used for video device registrations).
■
Endpoints registered to the video network are provisioned by Unified CM and register with a DN in the format
3xxx.
3xxx.
■
Lync clients registered to Lync are identified by URIs, for example:
—
David with a URI
david.jones@example.com
—
Alice with a URI
alice.parkes@example.com
■
Lync Front End Server is configured with a static domain route which routes URIs with the Expressway's video
network domain (
network domain (
video.example.com
) to the Gateway Expressway. Take care when using domain static routes;
any traffic for that domain that Lync cannot handle locally will be routed to Expressway.
Features and Limitations
Lync Environment
The scale of your Lync deployment could mean that your deployment model is more complex than what is described
in this guide.
in this guide.
deployment model varies in each case.
Lync / Skype for Business Versions Supported in This Deployment
The following matrix shows which Microsoft Lync and Skype for Business client versions are supported in the
Expressway gateway deployment. Clients in the first column are registered to one of the server versions in the other
columns. Find your client and server version to check whether the combination is supported in this Expressway
deployment.
Expressway gateway deployment. Clients in the first column are registered to one of the server versions in the other
columns. Find your client and server version to check whether the combination is supported in this Expressway
deployment.
Clients, when registered to
Lync
Server
2010
Server
2010
Lync
Server
2013
Server
2013
Skype for Business
Server 2015
Server 2015
Lync 2010 (Windows desktop)
Supported
Supported
Not supported
Lync for Mac 2011(audio only*)
Supported
Supported
Not supported
Lync 2013 for Windows (Windows desktop) that does not have
the Skype for Business UI update
the Skype for Business UI update
†
Not
applicable
applicable
Supported
Not supported
Lync 2013 for Windows (Windows desktop) that has the option to
use the Skype for Business UI
use the Skype for Business UI
†
Not
applicable
applicable
Supported
Not supported
Table 2 Lync and Skype for Business Support in this Deployment
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Cisco Expressway with Microsoft Lync Deployment Guide
Introduction