I have to create a Lync 2010 bot. The initial idea that I pitched for the development purposes was to create the application on my own laptop and add the application as a trusted application endpoint to the production lync server. In that way I can develop and test the bot on my machine.
But, this idea was not highly encouraged by Microsoft themselves and they recommended to create a development lab environment to develop the application. I have done my fair share of research and have come to conclusion of adding 2 VMs -
1) 1st VM will serve as the AD server. My question is, what all things/roles should be added to this server like DHCP, DNS, IIS etc.?
2) 2nd will be Lync Server. Here I will create the connection with the AD server. Again, how will the connection be done? What extra roles should this server fulfill?
3) My laptop will act as the application server and I will add my laptop and the application as an application endpoint to the Lync server. Can I create all the three things on a single VM and not worry about multiple VMs?
4) Do I need an exchange server? If yes then why?
Any help is appreciated. Thanks.
