The Lync Planning Tool program is a tool for planning the topology of an enterprise's server telecommunications system, offering you a number of questions about the hardware and functions that the company is interested in. Using your answers, Planning Tool recommends a topology based on Microsoft Lync Server 2010 that will perfectly match the needs of your business.
- you can select virtualized server roles within the required topology;
- The updated Lync Planning Tool offers even more detailed guidance for system planning than ever before;
- Now you can set up an individual information site for each branch of the company;
- n topology pages, specific information is displayed, such as the number of users and the number of users with support enabled for various modifications;
- Lync Planning Tool provides an opportunity to participate in the CEIP (Microsoft Customer Experience Improvement Program), which is aimed at improving the quality of software solutions;
- you can browse your network, enter your FQDN (Fully Qualified Domain Name-Full Domain Name) and IP addresses, view certificates, DNS settings and firewall settings in the central site when using DNS or hardware load balancing for Edge servers;
- In addition, as mentioned above, you can transfer this information to Topology Builder or the Microsoft Visio drawing and diagram editor;
- Lync Planning Tool exports a list of necessary hardware for all sites, including branch offices in Microsoft Excel spreadsheet;
- The solution now includes more supported topologies for Enterprise Voice and remote conference access capabilities;
- Improved navigation between the topology being created and the server data;
- while working with tools, you can resize or expand the program window to the full screen according to the screen resolution;
- the updated program includes new features of Microsoft Lync Server 2010 and new typology recommendations.