Test Lab Guide: Configure an integrated Exchange, Lync, and SharePoint test lab

  • Article

 

Applies to: Exchange Server 2013, Lync Server 2013, SharePoint Server 2013

Summary: Learn how to create an integrated test lab that contains a server that runs Exchange Server 2013, a server that runs Lync Server 2013, and a server that runs SharePoint Server 2013.

The test lab that results from this configuration, which includes server-to-server authentication between all three types of servers, can be used to build out and demonstrate multi-product scenarios and solutions that use a server that runs Exchange Server 2013, a server that runs Lync Server 2013, and a server that runs SharePoint Server 2013.

This document contains instructions for the following:

  1. Configuring the Windows Server 2012 Base Configuration test lab.

  2. Installing and configuring a new server named SQL1.

  3. Installing SQL Server 2012 on the SQL1 server.

  4. Installing and configuring a new client computer named CLIENT2.

  5. Installing and configuring Exchange Server 2013 on EX1.

  6. Installing and configuring a new server named LYNC1.

  7. Installing Lync Server 2013 Standard Edition on LYNC1.

  8. Installing SharePoint Server 2013 on SP1.

  9. Configuring integration between EX1, LYNC1, and SP1.

Watch the integrated Exchange, Lync, and SharePoint test lab guide overview video

For information about how to configure this test lab in Hyper-V, see Hosting the integrated Exchange, Lync, and SharePoint test lab with Windows Server 2012 Hyper-V.

Download the test lab guide

Test Lab Guide: Configure an Integrated Exchange, Lync, and SharePoint Test Lab (https://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/p/?LinkId=313670)

See also

Test Lab Guides