Publish Lync 2013 with 2012 R2 Preview Web Application Proxy

15th of July, 2013 / / 16 Comments

I discussed the new Windows 2012 R2 Preview Web Application Proxy (WAP) remote access role in a previous post Windows 2012 R2 Preview Web Application Proxy – Exchange 2013 Publishing Tests. I showed how to publish Exchange 2013 (except for Outlook Anywhere which isn’t working) and a claims based application.

In this post I am going to cover:

Publishing Lync Applications

Lync has a few different namespaces that need to be published:

  • Lync External Web Services (which includes the Lync Web App and Lync Scheduler)
  • Lync meeting join
  • Lync dialin page
  • Lyncdiscover for client autodiscover
  • Office Web Apps Server for PowerPoint sharing

Lync applications cannot use Preauthentication and have to use Pass-through which lets the backend server provide authentication.… [Keep reading] “Publish Lync 2013 with 2012 R2 Preview Web Application Proxy”

Office Web Apps Server – just say no to Windows Update Automatic Updates

21st of May, 2013 / / 1 Comment

Office Web Apps Server 2013 is a standalone Microsoft product that is leveraged by Lync 2013, SharePoint 2013 and Exchange 2013 for web based document viewing and editing using the WOPI (Web app Open Platform Interface) protocol. Office Web Apps Server used be called Web Application Companion (WAC) and that is what all of the Lync 2013 pre-release software and documentation called it. In my opinion, Office Web Apps Server is a very confusing name as Exchange Outlook Web App (or Access) has owned the OWA acronym since 1997 with Exchange 5.0 SP 1.… [Keep reading] “Office Web Apps Server – just say no to Windows Update Automatic Updates”

Publish Lync 2013 Including Mobility and Office Web Apps with UAG 2010

6th of May, 2013 / / 11 Comments

Microsoft Forefront TMG (Threat Management Gateway) has been the primary way Lync Web Services have been published in the past. With the untimely demise of TMG, the only Microsoft product (other than IIS) with reverse proxy functionality is Microsoft Forefront UAG (Unified Access Gateway). TMG will continue to be supported until 2015 for mainstream support and 2020 for extended support. If TMG is not already installed however, technically it cannot be used for a new installation.… [Keep reading] “Publish Lync 2013 Including Mobility and Office Web Apps with UAG 2010”