Version 18.2

In this section of the Deployment Guide, you will need to answer a series of questions, by annotating the answers here you will make configuration at the later stages of deployment a lot more efficient. It has been written in such a way that you can use this as a quick reference guide during configuration.

If you are resource and capacity planning for your server hardware, please note that you can co-locate the different MindLink server installations all onto one virtual or physical hardware instance. If you have purchased different MindLink products and your chosen strategy is to maintain all the product installations on a single virtual or physical server host. Please follow the guidelines in the prerequisites section to ensure there is sufficient memory, CPU and disk space.

1 Deployment Decisions

1.1 Lync Decisions

Will you use Auto-Provision (Lync 2013/SFB Only)	Yes	No
What will be the Next Hop for the Front End Pool?
Which port will your server listen on (Default is 4096)
What Service Account will run the MindLink Service?( Read the Active Directory via LDAP)

1.2 Persistent IM

The MindLink Service Account needs impersonation rights on Exchange (see Prerequisite guide for details on the script)	Yes	No
Enable Autodiscovery is enabled on Exchange

1.3 MindLink API

What Auth mechanism will you use?
What will be the Published name of the Server?
Which Certificate will be used?

1.4 MindLink Desktop Decisions

How will users connect?	Internally	Externally
What Cert will be used?
Will MLA be served by a Proxy?	Yes	No
Will there be Multiple MLA Endpoints with Load-balancing?	Yes	No
Will SSO be used?	Yes	No
Will V1/V2 be installed alongside V3?	Yes	No

1.5 MindLink Mobile

How will users connect – VPN/WiFi/Mobile Data with Proxy?	VPN	LAN	PROXY
How will your Certificate be signed?	Internally		Public CA
What is the Public Name of the Server (As per proxy config)
How will the Server connect to APNS or GCM – Proxy or Direct?	Proxy		Direct Connection
Will IM be enabled?	Yes		No
Will Group-Chat be enabled? If no, please refer to the administration guide for the necessary pre-requisite steps.	Yes		No
Will Autodiscovery be setup? If yes, refer to the pre-requisites page for the necessary steps and the administration guide for typical scenarios	Yes		No

1.6 MindLink for Sharepoint

How will your reverse proxy / rewrite rules be configured?
Will SSO be enabled?	Yes	No
Will there be Multiple Load-balanced ML Servers	Yes	No

See Also MindLink Desktop Decisions

1.7 Exchange Decisions


Do you want to automatically resolve the Exchange server name?	Yes	No
Will you automatically resolve the Exchange server name from a list of well-knonw URLs?	Yes	No
Do you want to manually configure the Exchange server name?	Yes	No