

Pay special attention to the Microsoft Speech Platform, UC Managed API 2.0, and UM Language Pack installations. Prior to deploying the Exchange Server make sure to install all of the prerequisite software for the UM role as documented in this checklist. No previous instance of Exchange had been installed so the deployment included creating a new Exchange Organization. The host used in this lab is a separate, dedicated virtual guest running Windows Server 2008 R2 with 2GB of RAM assigned to it. The best place to start would be the official Microsoft documentation. The deployment of Exchange Server 2010 SP1 is outside the scope of this article but there are many official and unofficial walkthroughs available online to help anyone unfamiliar with the Exchange Server deployment process. These steps begin right where article 3 left off so if you are following along make sure to configure the Enterprise Voice setting in Lync Server as detailed in that article.


Although the process is basically the same as it was in Exchange 2007 and OCS 2007 R2 there are a few important changes.

This article covers the Unified Messaging (UM) integration configuration between Lync Server 2010 Release Candidate and Exchange Server 2010 SP1.
