Configuring Federation with Lync Online

To establish interoperability between the on-premise deployment and Lync Online, the on-premise Edge pool must be configured for federation with the Lync Online tenant. The following steps are used to configure federation between an on-premise Edge pool and a Lync Online tenant:

1. Log on to a system where the Lync Server management tools are installed, and open the Lync Server Management Shell.

2. Execute the following command to enable federation and set basic parameters:

Set-CSAccessEdgeConfiguration -AllowOutsideUsers 1 -AllowFederatedUsers 1 -UseDnsSrvRouting

3. Execute the following command to establish federation with Lync Online:

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New-CSHostingProvider -Identity LyncOnline ...

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