Follow the same deployment instructions for deploying multiple Persistent Chat Server pools as you would for any pool. You can choose to add one or more Persistent Chat Server pools using Topology Builder. Use Topology Builder to add Persistent Chat Server to your Lync Server 2013 deployments. A separate database is required for compliance.Īt a minimum, each topology requires a server with Lync Server 2013 installed and a server with SQL Server database software installed. If your organization requires compliance support, you can install the Persistent Chat Server Compliance service on the Persistent Chat Server Front End Server. We do not support upgrading Lync Server 2010, Group Chat Server to a Lync Server 2013 Persistent Chat Server Standard Edition. Furthermore, we support only new Persistent Chat Server Standard Edition server. We do not support high availability for Persistent Chat Server Standard Edition.

In this case, the PersistentChatService Front End Server is collocated on the Standard Edition computer, and the PersistentChatStore Back End Server can be deployed on the local SQL Server Express instance.įor details about supported colocation configurations, see Supported server collocation in Lync Server 2013. Persistent Chat Server can also be deployed with Lync Server 2013 Standard Edition. We recommend that you install the PersistentChatStore on a dedicated SQL Server Back End Server, although collocating Lync Server 2013 Back End Server and PersistentChatStore on the same SQL Server instance is supported. Persistent Chat Server requires a SQL Server Back End Server in your Enterprise Edition pool to store the chat room content and other relevant metadata. Persistent Chat Server is available with Lync Server 2013 Enterprise Edition as a separate pool (not collocated with the Enterprise Edition Front End Servers). Install and configure Persistent Chat Server components for your deployment. Prepare your environment for deploying Persistent Chat Server components. Use Topology Builder to define, or import, and subsequently publish your topology and the components that you want to deploy. Lync Server 2013, Persistent Chat Server is part of the Lync Server 2013 infrastructure.ĭeploying Persistent Chat Server requires that you:

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