Microsoft Lync Server 2013 Preview Step by Step - Part I

My Lync Server 2013 Lab environment.

Domain Controller – Windows Server 2012
Lync Server – Lync Server 2013/Windows Server 2012
Server 2008 Forest/Domain functional level

Lync Server 2013 Prerequisites (Additional Software Requirement:
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/gg398686%28v=ocs.15%29)

Download Silverlight

Add AD DS and AD LDS Tools from Add Roles and Features Wizard.

Add Windows Identity Foundation.

Add Media Foundation.

To add IIS features run the below command.

For Windows 2008 R2 SP1

Import-Module ServerManager
Add-WindowsFeature Web-Static-Content,Web-Default-Doc,Web-Http-Errors,Web-Asp-Net,Web-Http-Logging,Web-Log-Libraries,Web-Http-Tracing,Web-Windows-Auth,Web-Client-Auth,Web-Filtering,Web-Stat-Compression,Web-Dyn-Compression,Web-Mgmt-Console,Web-Scripting-Tools

For Windows Server 2012

Import-Module ServerManager
Add-WindowsFeature Web-Static-Content,Web-Default-Doc,Web-Http-Errors,Web-Asp-Net,Web-Asp-Net45,Web-Http-Logging,Web-Log-Libraries,Web-Http-Tracing,Web-Windows-Auth,Web-Client-Auth,Web-Filtering,Web-Stat-Compression,Web-Dyn-Compression,Web-Mgmt-Console,Web-Scripting-Tools

Once this is done we can start the installer from Lync Server 2013 media.

Active Directory Preparation
Click Prepare Active Directory to prepare Active Directory schema, forest and domain for the Lync Server.

Click Run

Click on View Log to view the deployment log for executed command.

Now we can verify the replication of schema.

Open ADSIedit.msc. On the Action menu, click Connect to – Select Schema from the “Select a well known Naming Context:”

Search for CN=ms-RTC-SIP-SchemaVersion. If this object exists, and the value of the rangeUpper attribute is 1150 and the value of the rangeLower attribute is 3, then the schema was successfully updated and replicated.

Lets prepare the current Forest. Click Run in Deployment wizard.

Verify Replication of Global Catalog

Go to Active Directory Users and Computers and check for Universal group CsAdministrators in the right side pane. It it is present, replication of the Forest Preparation has been successful.