Load balancing Skype for Business

About Skype for Business

Skype for Business is a business class instant messaging, voice over IP (VoIP) and video collaboration tool by Microsoft. Since 2015, it has served as a replacement for Microsoft Lync (formerly Microsoft Office Communications Server).

Unlike the consumer version of Skype, the infrastructure for is hosted on Skype for Business Server. This is comprised a number of individual servers including, Frontend/Backend, Mediation, Director and Edge servers. Due to the number of servers and services provisioned, there is inherent complexity in the deployment. This requires a considered approach to high availability and distribution of user traffic.

Key benefits of load balancing

Here are a few key benefits:

• Ensures the application is always available
• Provides a stable, optimal performance
• Feature-rich highly resilient solution
• Scalability

Microsoft’s Enterprise solutions are at the heart of businesses everywhere. Loadbalancer.org is officially certified for all of Microsoft’s key applications which you can find here. More details on the Skype for Business components, how it works, and prerequisites for load balancing can be found in our deployment guide, available to view below.

Deploying Skype for Business with Loadbalancer.org appliances enables organizations to create a feature-rich highly resilient solution that ensures that wherever staff are located, and however they connect, they can depend on a platform that allows seamless communications wherever and whenever needed using the communications medium of their choice.