Installation

This section outlines the steps for installing the Standard and Enterprise Editions of Lync Server. The Standard Edition is generally used for small deployments, whereas the Enterprise Edition offers significant benefits for redundancy and a scalability. The largest difference between the Standard Edition and Enterprise Edition of Lync Server is that the Standard Edition uses SQL Server Express, previously known as MSDE, whereas the Enterprise Edition uses a full version of SQL Server 2005 or 2008.