I have a 2007 Environment

I need to federate it to a 2013 environment that I have little-to-no control over.

Is there anything that says I -cannot- make this situation work? Anything that -requires- me to upgrade to a different version of Lync?

Hi,

Slightly confused over the post title compared to your question, but yes you can federate lync 2013 with all previous flavours of lync and communication server providing you have the required components in place.

http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/jj204800.aspx

The 'little control' you refer to on the 2013 environment could pose a problem for you if they are not already enabled for open federation. You'd need to liaise with whoever does manage that system and arrange for a federated partnership.

From a technical standpoint you're good.

Kind regards

Ben

• Edited by BenDonaldson 13 hours 24 minutes ago

Hi,

Slightly confused over the post title compared to your question, but yes you can federate lync 2013 with all previous flavours of lync and communication server providing you have the required components in place.

http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/jj204800.aspx

The 'little control' you refer to on the 2013 environment could pose a problem for you if they are not already enabled for open federation. You'd need to liaise with whoever does manage that system and arrange for a federated partnership.

From a technical standpoint you're good.

Kind regards

Ben

• Edited by BenDonaldson Wednesday, December 18, 2013 10:26 PM
• Proposed as answer by Anthony Caragol 17 hours 45 minutes ago

Hi,

Slightly confused over the post title compared to your question, but yes you can federate lync 2013 with all previous flavours of lync and communication server providing you have the required components in place.

http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/jj204800.aspx

The 'little control' you refer to on the 2013 environment could pose a problem for you if they are not already enabled for open federation. You'd need to liaise with whoever does manage that system and arrange for a federated partnership.

From a technical standpoint you're good.

Kind regards

Ben

• Edited by BenDonaldson Wednesday, December 18, 2013 10:26 PM
• Proposed as answer by Anthony Caragol Thursday, December 19, 2013 6:01 PM

Hi Novaflow,

You can federation OCS 2007 with Lync server 2013. Both the OCS 2007 environment of you and the Lync server 2013 environment need do the following steps in the link below:

http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/jj204800.aspx

Best Regards,

Eason Huang