Lync Federation Guide
Table of contents
ZOOM Supported Microsoft Lync Environment .................................................................................................. 1
Federation Checklist ............................................................................................................................................ 2
Federation for Lync 2013 ..................................................................................................................................... 2
Federation for Office365 Enterprise (E Plans) ..................................................................................................... 4
Federation for Office365 Small Business (P Plans) .............................................................................................. 6
More information on Federation ........................................................................................................................ 7
ZOOM Supported Microsoft Lync Environment
Zoom unifies cloud video conferencing, simple online meetings, group messaging, and a
software-defined conference room solution into one easy-to-use platform. Our solution offers the
best video, audio, and wireless screen-sharing experience and supports integration between
Microsoft Lync, Skype for Business and H.323/SIP room systems in enterprise and company-to
company environments.
Supported Lync/Skype for Business Environments:
Lync 2010
Lync 2013
Office365
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Skype for Business
Supported Lync/Skype for Business clients:
Lync 2010 Windows client
Lync 2013 Windows client
Lync 2011 Mac client
Skype for Business 2015
Skype for Business 2016
Federation Checklist
1. Enable Lync on ZOOM account.
Lync can be enabled by your ZOOM Administrator through the ZOOM Account Feature
interface. If your Lync deployment is not configured as Open Federation, you will need to add
lync.zoom.us into the list of federated partners.
2. Enable your local environment for the federation
Ensure you have a publicly issued certificate installed on the Edge server.
Ensure firewall allows following ports to/from ZOOM’s IP space:
https://support.zoom.us/hc/en-us/articles/360044762091
Ensure the SRV record has been updated for your Lync domain.
Federation for Lync 2013
For the initialization of the federation between Lync server 2013 and ZOOM, follow the steps
as below:
1. Login to the Lync Front End or Standard Edition Server and open the Lync Control Panel
by going to Start -> All Programs -> Microsoft Lync Server 2013 > Lync Server ->Control Panel.
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Figure 1 – Access Lync Server Control Panel (in Windows 2013 Server)
2. On the Lync server control panel enable federation at a global level by going to:
Federation and External Access -> External Access Policy and seeing if Federated User Access is
checked (shown in Figure 2). If not, enable Federated user access by clicking on Edit -> Show
Details and check Enable Communications with Federated users.
Figure 2 – External Access Policy
3. To enable federation at a system level, select Access Edge Configuration from the top
navigation. 4. See Figure 3, under Edit Access Edge Configuration: Select Enable federation and
Enable partner domain discovery. If your company does not allow Open Federation, keep
“Enable partner domain discovery” unchecked and go to Step 5.
Figure 3 – Access Edge Configuration
5. To add the ZOOM Lync domain, go to SIP Federated Domains from top navigation. 6.
Now add a new domain pointing to lync.zoom.us and an edge server pointing to
sip.lync.zoom.us FQDN, as shown in Figure 4.
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Figure 4 – Federated Domains
Federation for Office365 Enterprise (E Plans)
For the initialization of the federation between your Office365 and ZOOM, follow the steps as
below:
1. Login to the Office365 portal as an Admin and access the Lync Settings by clicking on
Manage under Lync settings.
Figure 5 – Manage Lync Settings
2. On the Lync Online Control Panel, ensure Domain federation is set to Enabled. If it is
disabled, go to Domain Federation -> Edit (shown in Figure 6) and then enable federation by
selecting either Turn on external communications with all except blocked domains (Open
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Federation) and go to Step 5 or Turn off external communications with all except allowed
domains, in which case you need to allow the specified ZOOM Lync domain and go to Step 3.
Figure 6 – Domain Federation Mode
3. If the option to Turn off external communications with all except allowed domains was
selected, add the ZOOM Lync domain by clicking on add a domain and entering the domain with
lync.zoom.us as shown in Figure 7.
Figure 7 – Add a Domain
4. Once enabled, the domain will show up as allowed on the Domain Federation tab. As the
figure below:
Figure 8 – External Communications: Domain added
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5. Ensure each user is setup for Lync Federation calls by going to Users -> Edit User
Settings, select a user and ensure the Lync Users in other organizations box is checked. AS Figure
9:
Figure 9 –Lync Users in other organizations
Federation for Office365 Small Business (P Plans)
Microsoft Office365 Small Business Plans (P1/P2 Plan) are by default set to Open Federation. For
the initialization of the federation between your Office365 and ZOOM, follow the steps as below:
1. Login in your Office365 online portal as an Admin and click on General Settings under Lync.
Figure 10 – Office365 General Settings
2. Ensure External Communications is set to Enabled on the Lync Online Control Panel.
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Figure 11 – External Communications Enabled
More information on Federation
- Microsoft’s online documents:
Lync2013: https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/gg520966.aspx
- How to contact support at ZOOM
At https://support.zoom.us/hc/en-us
，
You can raise any questions you have about Federation
with ZOOM.
