Deploy Edge Server in Skype for Business Server
Summary: Learn how to deploy a Microsoft Edge Server or a Microsoft Edge pool into your Skype for Business Server environment.
Why deploy a Microsoft Edge Server or an Edge pool into your Skype for Business Server environment? It's necessary if you need external users who aren't logged into your organization's internal network to be able to interact with internal users. These external users could be authenticated and anonymous remote users, federated partners, or other mobile clients.
Deployment checklist for the Edge, for Skype for Business Server
As noted above, a lot goes into an Edge Server deployment for Skype for Business Server. This checklist gives you an overview of the tasks you need to perform, and links to more detailed steps.
We hope you begin the Plan for Edge Server deployments in Skype for Business Server section. If not, many of the things we refer to are detailed there. The deployment section contains only procedures, so if you want to know the reasoning behind these steps, planning is the place to begin.
This documentation also presumes you complete the Basic Deployment of Skype for Business Server. You might be doing that deployment side-by-side with the Microsoft Edge, but you do need to follow those steps first, and then you're able to make the topology changes for the Microsoft Edge that are documented here.
These are the high-level steps you need to follow, and the places you find those steps: