Forum Discussion
Hybird SIP domain
- Oct 22, 2017
Hi John,
I wrote a detailed response that keeps being posted as an answer then mysteriously disappearing... Let me try just posting the summary, then the full post:
Summary
- SIP Domains only on Skype for Business Online: point all records to cloud
- SIP Domains on-prem and online (hybrid), point to on-premises Edge server(s) & Reverse Proxy
- Edge server certificate will always require an additional SAN entry
- Reverse Proxy certificate won't if you are happy to allow lyncdiscover over http (port 80)
Hi John,
I wrote a detailed response that keeps being posted as an answer then mysteriously disappearing... Let me try just posting the summary, then the full post:
Summary
- SIP Domains only on Skype for Business Online: point all records to cloud
- SIP Domains on-prem and online (hybrid), point to on-premises Edge server(s) & Reverse Proxy
- Edge server certificate will always require an additional SAN entry
- Reverse Proxy certificate won't if you are happy to allow lyncdiscover over http (port 80)
- Damien MargaritisOct 22, 2017Iron Contributor
For any SIP domains that only exist in Office 365, all DNS records can point to Office 365. There are 4 records per domain that you need to configure:
SRV Records
TypeServiceProtocolPortWeightPriorityTTLNameTarget
SRV _sip _tls 443 1 100 1 hour <DomainName> sipdir.online.lync.com SRV _sipfederationtls _tcp 5061 1 100 1 hour <DomainName> sipfed.online.lync.com CNAME Records
TypeHost nameDestinationTTL
CNAME sip.<DomainName> sipdir.online.lync.com 1 hour CNAME lyncdiscover.<DomainName> webdir.online.lync.com 1 hour For any hybrid SIP Domains, domains that exist in both Skype for Business On-Premises and Skype for Business Online, all DNS records need to point to your on-premises Edge Server(s) and Reverse Proxy.
This does of course impact the number of SANs required on your public certificates. However, if you follow the below guidance you can limit the number of SANs required on your Reverse Proxy certificate
- Damien MargaritisOct 22, 2017Iron Contributor
DNS Records for Remote User/Federation (Edge Server Certificate)
For each hybrid domain in your environment, you will need to create the following records. These will hit the public certificate on your Edge server/pool. It's important that the domains are consistent between A Records and SRV Records. For example:
SRV _sip._tls.domain.com > A Record sip.domain.com:443
This means that, on your edge servers, you will need an additional SAN entry for each hybrid SIP Domain you want to support.
A Records
Type FQDN IP Address
A sip.domain.com <edge server access public IP address> SRV Records
TypeServiceProtocolPortWeightPriorityTTLNameTarget
SRV _sip _tls 443 1 100 1 hour domain.com sip.domain.com SRV _sipfederationtls _tcp 5061 1 100 1 hour domain.com sip.domain.com - Damien MargaritisOct 22, 2017Iron Contributor
DNS Records for web services (Reverse Proxy certificate)
For most URLs in a hybrid Skype for Business environment, you can negate the need to add additional entries to the public certificate by only using the same main domain for all URLs. For example:
Meet URLs
The meet simple URL, when supporting multiple domains, can be constructed like the following example, which uses the same base domain for all supported hybrid SIP Domains:
https://skype.domain.com/sipdomain1/Meet
https://skype.domain.com/sipdomain2/Meet
https://skype.domain.com/sipdomain3/Meet
Dialin URL
An on-premises/hybrid Skype for Business environment only requires a single Dialin URL, no need for multiple:
https://dialin.domain.com/