Administration Tools

Administrators familiar with previous versions of OCS undoubtedly know the Installation Wizard and Microsoft management console (MMC) snap-in that is used to administer OCS. Beginning with Lync Server, these tools are deprecated and have been replaced with a more flexible and robust toolset. Deployment engineers, system architects, and those responsible for the day-to day-upkeep of Lync Server benefit greatly from these new tools. Designing even complex OCS deployments is much simpler thanks to the new Topology Builder client.

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Topology Builder is an application that enables an architect to design and validate a complete deployment. The output of Topology Builder, the topology document, is then published to the CMS and ...

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