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Appendix H - Integration Into Microsoft Environments

Overview

The Polycom® Visual Communications offers high quality video and audio multipoint conferencing by
integrating the Polycom network devices and endpoints into Microsoft® platforms. The Polycom®
RealPresence® Collaboration Server (Collaboration Server) system can be integrated into the following
Microsoft environments:
●Office Communications Server 2007 environment (Microsoft R2, Wave 13)
●Lync Server 2010 environment (Microsoft Wave 14)
Point-to-point and multipoint audio and video meetings can be initiated from Office Communicator/ Lync
client, Windows Messenger and Polycom video endpoints (HDX and VSX) when the environment
components are installed and configured.
Multipoint calls are enabled when the Collaboration Server is installed in the Microsoft environment and is
configured for unified communications. Routing to conferences can be performed by the Office
Communications Server/Lync Server either by:
●Matched URI dialing - using the SIP URI address.(both Office Communications Server and Lync
Server)
●Numerical dialing - enables a common dialing plan for Meeting Rooms across Office
Communications Server and H.323 infrastructures (not available in Lync server environment).
TLS certificates can be generated using the following methods: CSR, PFX and PEM; each giving different
options for Encryption Key length. The table below lists the SIP TLS Encryption Key length support for the
various system components.
Integration into Microsoft environment (using Lync endpoints) is supported in AVC CP Conferencing
Mode only.
From Version 7.0.x, Microsoft R1 is not supported with Collaboration Server systems.
Only TLS connections to the Collaboration Server will work, TCP connections will not work.
The Collaboration Server does not support working with multiple Edge servers.