Overview

Microsoft Lync Server 2010 has several different server roles. These server roles can be combined in several ways to produce a myriad of architecture options. Even the collocation of services for a given role can be split for added flexibility.

The Archiving role in Lync Server 2010 primarily serves the purposes of legal compliance. That said, other companies might want to have a centrally searchable archive for other purposes because the Archive Server role is able to archive communications across both IM and meetings.

The Archiving role scales well with a single Archiving Server capable of handling up to 300,000 users. As such, it is common to collocate the Archiving role with the Monitoring role. The Archiving role supports redundancy ...

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