Bob Christian
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Fri Feb 04, 2005 6:39 am Post subject:
Can deploy livecomm server on the internet |
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This would be possible...Exchange is a hosted service and
several folks have thought about hosted LCS a few times.
One of my three managers asked me about this the other
day. No "Fluffy" jokes from the Harry Potter peanut
gallery. Another person asked about it because they want
to IM with vendors and the vendors are small companies
that can't afford (don't want to afford) a full-blown LCS
implementation.
I would imagine that you would need:
Active Directory
* Possibly some way for the users to change
their password remotely.
DR/Backup Server
* Too many people think of DR as an afterthought
...until Mr. Murphy and his law show up.
LCS 2005 SE Access Proxy
* Public certificate from GeoTrust or someone
similar for the server name. Internal certificates
could be used, but the external systems would have to
download the chain. It's much easier to pay GeoTrust
or someone to throw this up.
* External DNS record for the Access proxy
LCS 2005 SE front-end or EE front-end
* Public or private certificate for the SE server
name or EE pool name so that it can talk to the
access proxy over MTLS/TLS.
SQL 2000 Backend (variable)
* (for archiving, if needed) If it's just you and
a few colleagues...and they are not a corporate
officer, then you should probably talk to legal
(or your company lawyer) and get it cleared to do
zero archiving.
* Needed if you have LCS 2005 EE.
Firewall person to open port 5061 (or 443 if you setup
both 443 and 5061 as TLS ports.
The Windows messenger users would simply enter the
credentials (URI, Password, Domain) and server information
(Access proxy external DNS name and TLS...if you want to
connect on 443:
accessproxy.company.com:443 and TLS).
Before doing this I would recommend that you get really
familiar with the LCS documentation.
Bob
| Quote: | -----Original Message-----
Is it possible to host the live communication server on
the Internet and
allow computers which are not within the domain to access
it through
Internet? or needs VPN installed?
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mmy
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