Conferencing Resiliency and Backup Service

Lync Server 2010 introduced resiliency for the voice platform through Survivable Branch Appliances/Servers and the concept of primary and backup registrars. This allowed users to retain basic voice services during an outage, but all contact list and conferencing capabilities were lost until an administrator intervened to forcefully move users and restore information. Lync Server 2013’s focus around conferencing resiliency automates this process for administrators by replicating conference data between each Front End pool member for both the primary and the backup registrar.

This resiliency is achieved through a new Lync Backup Service that replicates user and conferencing data between paired Front End ...

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