Lync client failover timing question

Funny, we have had many, many "experts" tell us how they think things work; even Microsoft, but actually none of them really know. How about putting the Lync FE Pool members behind the F5's and no SNAT if all traffic has to pass through the LTM's then I would think it may help the LTM's kill the connection. We also thought about 2 1 member pools, at least that way there is settings for timeout in Lync, but I think it's the 3 polls of a dead server before client switchover that's killing us.

 

 

We are also waiting on word back if there is a way to change the client behaviour from 3 polls of a dead server to 1, but I'm not getting my hopes up.

 

 

I will post here when we get the final solution

 

 

Bob James