Complete Lync 2013 Installation Guide including – Web Access WAC, Archiving and Monitoring Server and Reports PART 3 of 6

Hello all, and welcome to part 3 of the Installation guide for Lync 2013 enterprise edition with all the extra features enabled and working.

In part 3 we are going to go into install the WAC server (web access server), and the Achiving and Monitoring plus testing to ensure all is fully functional.

Be sure to look back soon for part 4!!

If your unsure whats gone on before part 3 i.e.: part 1 and 2 select the links below.

Part 1 Complete Lync 2013 Installation Guide including – Pre Reqs, Enterprise Edition Pool, SQL Mirroring and Witness, Archiving/Monitoring, Persistent Chat, Edge Setup and XMPP integration PART 1 of 6

Part 2 Complete Lync 2013 Installation Guide including – Pre Reqs, Enterprise Edition Pool, SQL Mirroring and Witness, Archiving/Monitoring, Persistent Chat, Edge Setup and XMPP integration PART 2 of 6

Enjoy the guide and i look forward to any feedback and retweets!

Ok lets start from the top with the Web Access Server install

WAC PreReq’s

From the Server Run powershell AS ADMINISTRATOR and copy the following script it

firstly type Set-ExecutionPolicy 1 then select Y as this will allow you to run powershell scripts at a later time

Now run the follow command in powershell

Import-Module ServerManager

then the following

Add-WindowsFeature Web-Server,Web-WebServer,Web-Common-Http,Web-Static-Content,Web-App-Dev,Web-Asp-Net,Web-Net-Ext,Web-ISAPI-Ext,Web-ISAPI-Filter,Web-Includes,Web-Security,Web-Windows-Auth,Web-Filtering,Web-Stat-Compression,Web-Dyn-Compression,Web-Mgmt-Console,Ink-Handwriting,IH-Ink-Support

Once the modules have installed if your are running windows 2008 you will be prompted to restart the server at this point.

next step is to install the WAC services ***If you the need the WAC software you can download link here http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=35489

Now at this stage run the setup.exe.

(i thought id put this into the blog as i got this error, again nothing to major just a couple for further prereqs for Win2008r2 server). you would not see this error on windows 2012

I've added the links to the missing files here 

.net 4.5 http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=30653

IIS update http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?displaylang=en&id=27929

Powershell 3.0 http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=34595

-- Following the issue and now installed components the screenshot of the successful install

Double click it to run the .exe file. Accept the terms and conditions and away you go.

Once this installation is complete its best practice to install the wac language pack as well as without this it could trip you up at a later date. (and its only 25mb) so nothing to taxing. again the link to the pack is here http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=35490

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

——- The WAC server setup is now complete.  So at this stage we need to go back to the Front-end of Lync 2013 for the topology and adding our WAC details within it.

Open your Lync 2013 topology and save it as normal, then navigate to the shared components

select the new office web apps server option.

Now add your wax details

Now publish your topology. Once you’ve published and its come back error free. your complete.. Now its time to test the powerpoint presentations.

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Ok lets start the Archiving and Monitoring install

The first step is to add the required details back within the topology.

So open and save your topology, then navigate to your enterprise edition pool and right click to edit the properties.

Scroll down to the area were we need to add the required details

select the archiving option, then add your SQL details

Now add the required details for Monitoring.. this should be as simple as just selecting it from the option drop down as below

Now Publish your topology.

you will be prompted to select a alternate database configuration. For my lab i just accepted defaults

Once you get the successful publishing of your topology, its time to rerun the deployment wizard on your frontends to add the archiving and monitoring services.

As you can see we don’t have to run step1 or 3 as we already have the local CMS store homed on the frontend. And for step 3 we don’t require any further certificates as Archiving and monitoring don’t require them to function.

So simply select step 2 and Run…

The command should complete without issue. (as below).. however if you do get errors you will need to investigate the issue before you continue.

Next Step now is to start the services for Archiving and Monitoring. Step 3

Check to make sure that the frontend service restarts successfully. you will not see individual services for archiving and monitoring as they are part of the frontend service.

Before

After

Now we are now complete

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Last step now, lets start the Monitoring report installation

From the deployment wizard, select deploy monitoring reports

If you need to change your reporting services server, then this is the point to do so.

For our Lab deployment then we are going to accept the defaults

once its run through the deployment you should be presented with a screen like below.

Now lets jump back to the lync control panel and check that our report services are selectable (if you already had the lync control panel open you will need to close it and reopen it to see the monitoring option)

Select the reports

there you have it.. if you have followed the above you should have now your reports up and running

Finished….

Thats it for Part 3. check back in a couple of days for Part 4 which will be persistent chat install and configuration.

Again happy to take comments, and please retweet.!

Regards

Iain Smith, NorthernLync.

New Lync 2010 Server and Lync Client Updates released – January 2013 Update

A new round of updates has hit the cyber shelf earlier in the week. At this point I’m not sure exactly what the updates bring. Enhancements or Bug fixs? who knows.

Get your fill here

Lync 2010 (64bit client) 4.0.7577.4374: KB 2793351

Lync 2010 (32bit client) 4.0.7577.4374: KB 2793351

Lync Server 2010 4.0.7577.211: KB 2791665

Regards

Iain Smtih

Complete Lync 2013 Installation Guide including – Pre Reqs, Enterprise Edition Pool, SQL Mirroring and Witness, Archiving/Monitoring, Persistent Chat, Edge Setup and XMPP integration PART 1 of 6

This blog post will be made up of several parts covering all the main aspects of a greenfield Lync 2013 installation. The reason for the post is to help others who are not clear on the requirements and installation methods used within Lync 2013 plus also to raise awareness of the new features that are imbedded in the Lync 2013 build.

The blog parts will be made up of the follow posts

Pre Req’s upto Topology Publishing – Part 1

Front-end Installation and Certificate enablement – Part 2

Archiving and Monitoring installation – Part 3

Persistent Chat – Part 4

Edge Setup – Part 5

XMPP integration – Part 6

Please feel free to request additional areas as i would gladly add them to the build guide. Any comments or feedback is also welcome

PART 1

Server Pre Reqs – Domain Name is northernlync.local

Domain Controller Server

Within my lab DC, I’m running DNS, AD services and my certificate authority. This is a Windows 2008r2 server running 2008r2 Domain and Forest attributes.

DNS Entries

Under my Forward look up zone, i’ve added the following entries for Lync 2013

Lync frontend servers 1 – lync2013fe01.northernlync.local = IP 192.168.1.4

Lync frontend servers 2- lync2013fe02.northernlync.local = IP 192.168.1.20

Lync Pool – lyncpool1.northernlync.local = IP 192.168.1.4 & lyncpool1.northernlync.local = IP 192.168.1.20

Lync SQL Mirroring Server 01 – lync2013SQL01.northernlync.local = IP 192.168.1.2

Lync SQL Mirroring Server 02 – lync2013SQL02.northernlync.local = IP 192.168.1.3

Lync SQL Mirroring Witness – lync2013SQL03.northernlync.local = IP 192.168.1.21

Lync Web Access Server – lync2013wac01.northernlync.local = IP 192.168.1.5

Lync Persistent Chat Server – lync2013pchat.northernlync.local = IP 192.168.1.6

Updated DNS Entries I missed off – Thanks Andy for the headsup ! blog @legendarytechy

Lync Contol Panel access – For the purpose of the lab, im simply going to point this to the lync2013fe01.northernlync.local IP 192.168.1.4

Lyne Meet and Dialin for webaccess again Im simply going to point this to the lync2013fe01.northernlync.local IP 192.168.1.4

SRV Record

_sipinternaltls
_tcp
5061
lyncpool1.northernlync.local

Users and Member Groups

For my installation i always use a recognisable named account to do my installations. In this lab install, i have used the following account throughout the whole process of the installation.

User account

name = srv_lync which is a member of = Domain Admins, Schema Admins, Enterprise Admins (All are required for the AD prep as part of the initial build of Lync 2013)

***Thats it for now for the Lync administrative tasks. At a later point we will need to circle back and add the CSAdministrator permission to src_lync and also users accounts into Active Directory

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 Lync Frontend Server preparation.

As with Lync 2010 there are a number of pre reqs required on the actual servers for Lync, e.g.: dotnet3.5 etc. Below is a the installation guide for adding the required roles and features needed for a successful topology publish.

– Note: My Lync 2013 front ends are Windows 2012 running the latest updates. (Note: Lync 2013 requires a operating system of 64bit architecture)

Roles Required List

Your Front-ends will require the following to be installed
Roles
Web Server (IIS)

Roles additional 
Web Server (IIS), Role Services, Common Http Features Installed, Static, Default doc ,Https errors, Health and Diagnostics, Http logging, Logging Tools, Tracing, Performance, Static Content Compression ,Dynamics Content, Compression, Security, Request Filtering, Client Cert Mapping Authentication, Windows Authentication, Management Tools, IIS Mgt Console, IIS mgt Scripts and Tools, Application Development, ASP.NET 3.5, ASP.NET 4.5, .NET extensibility 3.5, .NET extensibility 4.5, ISAPI extensions, ISAPI Filters

Features
Message Queuing, Message Queuing Services, Remote Server Administration Tools, Role Administration Tools, AD DS and AD LDS Tools, User Interfaces and Infrastructure, Desktop Experience, Windows Identity Foundation 3.5, .NET Framework 3.5, HTTP Activation, Non-HTTP Activation .NET Framework 4.5 (Should already be installed as part of win2012)

****NOTE: Anyone running the installation against windows 2012 without update will encounter an issue with trying to enable .net3.5 as part of the roles and features install. (At the time of writing there is a bug which doesn’t allow the install direct from the GUI. You have to run the below cmd line to install .net3.5.

dism.exe /online /enable-feature /featurename:NetFX3 /Source:D:\sources\sxs /all

– Source D being your DVD media!

Step 1

Guide to adding the roles required.

Select add new roles and features from the server manager wizard

Select Role-Based or Feature-based installation

Select the defaults of your frontend server in the server pool area of the wizard

As you can see Web Server IIS and .net4.5 is now installed

—- Now onto the Features list

Messaging Queue and all the other features listed above.

Now all our Roles and Features are installed its time to move onto the Lync frontend installation wizard.

Its also worth noting that as part of the SQL mirroring setup you will also require .net3.5 on the SQL servers as well.

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Deployment Wizard – Defining your Topology

From the Lync 2013 installation media, navigate to Lync2013\Setup\amd64 then select Setup.exe (NOT Setup2.exe)

you will then be prompted with a screen like below, select the default path and press the install button

 

 

 

 

 

 

Once this install is completes, then navigate to your start menu where you will find an option called ‘Lync Server Deployment Wizard’.

Select the option.

Once the deployment wizard opens up, select the option Install Administrative tools as below screenshot

You will see nothing happen apart from a green tick appear next to the selected item,

Once you get your green tick as above next to the admin tools, its time to go back to your Start menu again and select ‘Lync Server Topology Builder’

You will now be greeted by a few new dialog boxes for the topology

First dialog select ‘New Topology’

Then select OK

Before you start to configure your new topology you have to save the topology. this is incase you make an error and you then have the option to revert back to the previous topology build (you will be prompted to save your topology each time you enter the topology builder)

Name the SaveAs, then select Save

On the below screen enter your primary SIP domain name. In my lab case its nothernlync.local, if you are running a split brain domain you can add other SIP domain on the next screen

then select Next

Once you’ve added your SIP names etc its now time to Define your site details

Give your site a name and description, then select Next

And now add location details, then select Next

Now we’ve added all the required details for the topology, its now time to start defining details for the frontend topology elements

Leave the tick in the ‘Open Frontend Wizard option and select Finish

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Deployment Wizard – Defining your Frontends

Add your Lync 2013 Pool FQDN name into the dialog box.

In this guide i will be building the lab as enterprise edition setup, meaning i can add multiple frontend servers to my pool topology for resilience.

* Note – Enterprise Edition requires a separate SQL server, whereas Standard Edition runs SQL express within its only frontend server build.

** Note – Standard Edition can’t have a multiple servers in the pool BUT can be paired to another Lync 2013 pool for some resilience if required.

Please ensure you select the option which is right for your organisation.

Add the FQDN’s of your front ends then select add. Once you have finished select the Next button

Select the features you require. If your unsure, its better to deselect options then go back at a later date and add them as a separate exercise.

For the Lab, I’m going to select Conferencing, Archiving and Monitoring (Archiving and Monitoring as part of 3)

Also I’m going to Co-locate my mediation server onto the frontend for my lab as i have no requirement for voice apart from the demo purposes.

Next Dialog relates to Edge enablement. As part of our demo we are not going enable this for the time being as we will jump into edge as Part 5 of this guide.

Lets now go ahead and add the new information for SQL Store information. (My SQL has three new instances created LyncCore, LyncArcMon, LyncPChat)

Select New

Now add information for your first SQL server. (if you now doing SQL Mirroring, you will not be prompted for a second SQL server or SQL Witness)

For SQL Mirroring select New to add your second SQL server information

Now before committing your SQL setup information, this is a good chance to double check your details.

We need to now add the information for the Lync Share which holds the address book information etc. (You need to have writes to the share for the topology to completed successful)
As part of this lab, i have added the share to the first SQL Server

Enabling your Web Access Server. If you already have a WAC server in your organisation you don’t need to have a  separate one for Lync 2013, as you can utilise your existing WAC server.
For this lab demo i will add a WAC server for guide purposes.

Ok at the next dialog click Finish.

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Deployment – Prepare Active Directory

So before we can publish our now defined topology, we need to update the AD Schema, Domain and Forest.
Again from the Lync deployment wizard select ‘Prepare Active Directory’ and then accept the Run options and Next options in order of them becoming  defaults

At this point select local domain.

Once your AD is prep’d, at this stage i like to add the CSadministrator role to my user account src_lync

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Publishing the Topology

Ok onto the last step of Publishing the topology

select Lync Server from the topology pane on the left as right click and  select Publish topology

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

For your SQL Mirror you will need to select your file share for holding the mirroring information

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 Ensure your Topology publishes without Errors. If you do have errors ensure that you resolve all errors and warnings before continuing on.

 

Thats it for Part 1,
You’ve completed your PreReq’s and also added information about your Lync environment plus published your topology.

I will upload ((Front-end installation and Certificate enablement – Part 2)) in the next couple of days

Regards

Iain Smith