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david_baumgart_
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Jul 19, 2016

Skype for Business: Using the Big IP as my Default Gateway

Hello All:   I am in the process of rolling out Skype for Business for my company. As it stands, I have my internal pool up and load balanced via the Skype for Business 2015 iApp template. The iss...
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mikeshimkus_111
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Hi David, check out page 28 of the Lync deployment guide:

 

http://www.f5.com/pdf/deployment-guides/microsoft-lync-iapp-dg.pdf

 

You can set up the next hop in Network>Routes on your Edge BIG-IP.

 

Mike

 

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Jul 19, 2016

It shouldn't have broken your internal services. On your Edge servers, you have one static route pointing to the Edge LTM self IP for external networks, and another static route pointing to the self IP of the internal LTM for traffic bound for the internal Skype resources, correct?