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How to enable Lync On-Premise to Federate with Office365 Lync Online

• 16/04/2011 • 10 Comments

I’ve just been doing some testing between our Lync On-Premise installation and Office365 Lync Online with Thomas Lee (who is all over Office365 information)

The information about implies that Lync Online, once you choose Open Federation on your web admin console, will federate with any On-Prem Lync installation that also has open federation. We found this not to be the case. Our system is Open federation and already federated to Microsoft (not that that appears relevant), but initially adding contacts didn’t give presence.

Initially no presence

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The solution is that you need to add a new Hosting Provider for Lync Online.

By default there are 3 Providers

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To add Lync Online either click the new hosting provider,

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Or to be quicker launch the Lync Management shell and run the command:

New-CSHostingProvider –identity LyncOnline –ProxyFqdn sipfed.online.lync.com –Enabled $True

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Once you refresh the Lync Control Panel you should see your new hosting provider

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Once the CMS has had a minute or two to sync, everything worked fine

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Credit where credit is due, I found the solution here

So it seems On-Prem deployments will need to add this hosting provider to allow anyone using Office365 to federate.

Tom Arbuthnot

Tom Arbuthnot

Senior Consultant at Modality Systems
Tom Arbuthnot is a Microsoft MVP and Senior Consultant at Modality Systems. Tom is actively involved in the global Unified Communications community. He is a founding member of the Microsoft UC User Group London, a contributing writer to Lync Server 2013 Unleashed and is a technical reviewer for Trainsignal. Modality Systems is a UC Centre of Excellence – specializing in strategy, infrastructure, user adoption, managed services and software development.
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  1. Thomas F Lee says:
    17/04/2011 at 13:14

    A great summary of what we found. I am surprised that Office 365 is being treated like PIC rather than just a bunch of domains that happen to be all hosted by MS. I suspect this will cause a bunch of help desk calls to On-Prem users, and probably not a few calls back to MS.

    But it now works and I’m surprised how well it performs – very good for a beta (well so far anyway!). I now have to do a bunch more testing!

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    • Russ Kaufmann says:
      27/04/2011 at 14:31

      It is frustrating to me that they require the on-premises installations to take extra steps to federate with the Lync online environment.

      I hope they make changes so that nothing is required for those that use open federation to have to manually add the Office 365 cloud of companies and users when they have already understood the risks associated with open federation.

      We shall see.

      Reply
  2. Saul says:
    18/12/2012 at 17:34

    Hi,

    I have done this configuration with a Lync On-Premise and a Lync Online and i have the next problems:

    - Between On-Premise users all functions works, including Internal and External users.
    - Between Online users all functions works.
    - Between On-Premise and Online users IM and the whiteboard works, but I can’t make Video and Audio calls.

    I don’t know if you can help me, is there something I should do on my Firewall?

    Thanks in advance.

    Saul

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    • Tom Arbuthnot says:
      19/12/2012 at 09:21

      Does sound like a possible firewall issue.

      Can you take a trace from the front end of a failed call to see what is happening?
      Can you run testocsconnectivity.com

      thanks

      Reply
    • MH says:
      19/12/2012 at 13:59

      I have exactly the same issue, can’t make calls from Lync On-premise to Lync Online.
      It works from one On-premises to another.

      Reply

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