Front End Pool

A final option for branch sites is to deploy a full Front End pool instead of just a survivable branch component. This approach was historically driven by the need to place conferencing services locally, but had the additional benefit of still providing voice resiliency through backup registrar association in Lync Server 2010. Just like a survivable branch component, Front End pools could be associated with each other for backup registrar services in Lync Server 2010, and there was no limit to the number of associations a single pool could handle.

The change to requiring a 1:1 ratio between paired Front End pools in Lync Server 2013 now prevents administrators from deploying Standard Edition pools in branches and associating all ...

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