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Gerald_Cheminan
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Jan 14, 2016

Lync Server 2013 HLB

Hi all, At first I describe my environnement :   AD Local domain = internal.ad Public domain = SMTP domain = SIP domain = publicdomain.com Lync Server Enterprise Pool PoolEE.internal.ad FE01.i...
application delivery
BIG-IP
iApps
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mikeshimkus_111
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Jan 19, 2016

That is correct, BIG-IP will load balance the first request to the Front End servers, but after that the clients will communicate directly to them.

 

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Gerald_Cheminan
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Jan 20, 2016
Hi Mickael, Again thank a lot for your quick and quality answer. To complete my questions, I find very good articles by Thomas Poett about HLB, certificates.. I wanted to share with you and confirm your analysis. https://gallery.technet.microsoft.com/office/Lync-2013-internal-3ac7ddfb https://gallery.technet.microsoft.com/office/HLB-and-DNS-Load-Balancing-3cb98ec4 Have a nice year 2016 ! !