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[Show/Hide]- 1 Deployment Decisions
- 2 Example Architecture Diagrams
- 2.1 Overview of entire Suite
- 2.2 MindLink Mobile High Availability Deployment
- 2.3 MindLink Desktop High Availability Deployment
- 2.4 MindLink SharePoint Overview
- 2.5 MindLink API (Integrations) Server Deployment
- 2.6 MindLink Desktop SFB Online High Availability Deployment
- 2.7 MindLink Mobile SFB Online High Availability Deployment
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?
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Yes | No | |
Will Autodiscovery be setup?
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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 |
2 Example Architecture Diagrams
2.1 Overview of entire Suite
Below are sample architectural diagrams, A Single Server deployment typically for POC can also be deployed without a load balancer.
2.2 MindLink Mobile High Availability Deployment
2.3 MindLink Desktop High Availability Deployment
2.4 MindLink SharePoint Overview
2.5 MindLink API (Integrations) Server Deployment
2.6 MindLink Desktop SFB Online High Availability Deployment
2.7 MindLink Mobile SFB Online High Availability Deployment