Persistent Chat Server installation
As we said before, depending on your Lync deployment, the Chat Server has to be deployed as a dedicated pool (with Lync Enterprise Edition), or can be collocated (Lync Standard Edition). The Persistent Chat requires a dedicated instance on a database (mandatory in the first scenario), or could also be collocated on the local SQL Express (in the second situation). In our example, we will deploy the service on a Standard Edition Server, but the database will be on a separate SQL Server with a dedicated instance.
The following are the steps to be performed for installing the Persistent Chat Server:
The first step, as we can see, will be performed in the Topology Builder, which is defining a new Persistent Chat pool (the menu is the same even if we collocate the role).
In a Standard Edition scenario, the value of the FQDN field is the name of the Lync Front End Server, where Persistent Chat will be collocated (see the following screenshot):
The following screenshot...
