james frost jg¬º,µØ¬rë,Š‰ìš+¢ÊµÊ&

Hey there,

We're contemplating a smaller LCS 2005 deployment (< 2,000 users) and I have
a question about the different servers roles with the new version. My
questions are:

- Is it possible to combine the roles of Director Server and Front-end
(Home) server on the same physical machine?

- If exposing the IM service externally (for remote users), can the Access
Proxy Server just be an existing proxy server or is it a special LCS server
role? eg. Could we use our existing MS ISA firewall/proxy server to reverse
proxy the LCS service and expose it? Or is it a special function that's
normally performed by a dedicated LCS machine?

I've read the MS architecture guide, and it's very good, but as they're
dealing with an 80,000+ seat deployment, the specifics are fairly different.
Any help would be appreciated.

Regards,

James Frost
jamesfr@nospam_avanade.com
Avanade Australia

james frost jg¬º,µØ¬rë,Š‰ìš+¢ÊµÊ&

Hey there,

We're contemplating a smaller LCS 2005 deployment (< 2,000 users) and I have
a question about the different servers roles with the new version. My
questions are:

- Is it possible to combine the roles of Director Server and Front-end
(Home) server on the same physical machine?

- If exposing the IM service externally (for remote users), can the Access
Proxy Server just be an existing proxy server or is it a special LCS server
role? eg. Could we use our existing MS ISA firewall/proxy server to reverse
proxy the LCS service and expose it? Or is it a special function that's
normally performed by a dedicated LCS machine?

I've read the MS architecture guide, and it's very good, but as they're
dealing with an 80,000+ seat deployment, the specifics are fairly different.
Any help would be appreciated.

Regards,

James Frost
jamesfr@nospam_avanade.com
Avanade Australia

danieldo

Hello James,

LCS 2005 is still in Beta; if you are a participant in the beta program you
need to post your question in the appropriate private newsgroup. Otherwise,
it would not be appropriate to make forward looking statements.


Daniel Dorgan, MCSE
Enterprise Networking Support


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Hey there,

We're contemplating a smaller LCS 2005 deployment (< 2,000 users) and I
have
a question about the different servers roles with the new version. My
questions are:

- Is it possible to combine the roles of Director Server and Front-end
(Home) server on the same physical machine?

- If exposing the IM service externally (for remote users), can the Access
Proxy Server just be an existing proxy server or is it a special LCS server
role? eg. Could we use our existing MS ISA firewall/proxy server to reverse
proxy the LCS service and expose it? Or is it a special function that's
normally performed by a dedicated LCS machine?

I've read the MS architecture guide, and it's very good, but as they're
dealing with an 80,000+ seat deployment, the specifics are fairly
different.
Any help would be appreciated.

Regards,

James Frost
jamesfr@nospam_avanade.com
Avanade Australia