Web Conferencing Edge

When joining a web conference, users first authenticate to the Access Edge Server before the client joins using the Web Conferencing Edge Server role. The Web Conferencing Edge Server enables remote users to participate in web conferences with internal users or other remote workers.

Organizations may also elect to enable anonymous or unauthenticated users to join web conferences with their own users. This functionality is similar to what many hosted web conferencing services offer. However, it is provided by the organization’s own Lync Server infrastructure. Web conferencing uses Microsoft’s Proprietary Shared Object Model (PSOM) protocol to facilitate the meetings and data. Like the Access Edge traffic, all Web Conferencing Edge traffic is conducted over HTTPS port 443, so it is secure and resilient to proxy servers.