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This download comes as a pre-configured set of VHD's. This download enables you to fully evaluate the Microsoft Lync 2013, Microsoft Exchange 2013, SharePoint 2013, and UC developer platform APIs including the Microsoft Lync 2013 SDK, the Exchange Web Services Managed API 2.0 as well as the Microsoft Lync Server 2013 SDK and the Microsoft Unified Communications Managed API 4.0. Also, Lync Server

• Evaluate Microsoft's Lync Server 2013!
  
  Microsoft Lync is an enterprise-ready unified communications platform. Lync connects people everywhere, on Windows 8 and other devices, as part of their everyday productivity experience. Lync provides a consistent, single client experience for presence, instant messaging, voice, video and a great meeting experience. Lync 2013 supports multiparty HD video conferencing, modern “touch first” capabilities for fast and natural communications, and work anywhere scenarios that do not require a VPN for encryption. Lync 2013 users can connect to anyone on Skype, enabling rich communication with hundreds of millions of people around the world!
  
  How it works
  
  Work Anywhere
  Lync allows users to communicate securely and stay connected with colleagues and customers, from virtually wherever they chose to work.
  
  Lync Across Devices
  Users can switch among devices as they choose based on their needs. Lync offers familiar and consistent user experience across PC, phone, browser and tablets.
  
  Connected Experiences
  Lync connects millions of people, their communications and the applications they use every day - together. Multiparty HD video conferencing brings life and expression to Lync Meetings.
  
  Simpler to Manage
  Lync is a dependable platform for all real-time communications. A single system reduces complexity in Enterprise IT.
  
  Deployment Flexibility
  Lync lets you reach your vision of unified communications – on your timeline following your blueprint.
  
  
  Minimum Demo Requirements
  The complete topology consists of 7 virtual machines that require a minimum of 24GB of RAM and a powerful dual core or any quad core host machine, and up to 150 Gb of disk space for the full topology.
  
  A minimal Unified Communications Developer’s topology consisting of the DC virtual machine, the Lync Server 2013 Front End Edition virtual machine, the Exchange Server 2013 Unified Messaging Virtual Machine and the Terminal Services virtual machine can be run in 16GB of RAM.
  
  Notes:
  1. This trial is split over 3 download releases. The links for parts 1 and 2 are located below in the Additional Information section.
  2. This trial software is intended for evaluation purposes or proof of concept prototyping only.
  3. There is no product support for this trial. You are welcome to share your trial experience with others and to ask for advice by participating in the MSDN forums of Microsoft Lync and Microsoft Exchange’s developer forum on Technet. IT Pros can send their questions here.
  4. The VHD set has an initial grace period of 10 days and can be activated for up to an additional 180 days. Look for instructions on how to activate the VHDs in the Quick Start Guide located on this download site.
  

Files

Status: Live This download is still available on microsoft.com. The downloads below will come directly from the Microsoft Download Center.

File	Size
Lync2013_TS-1.bin SHA1: ca2822626278c53bdcc7682f1d0647c14d7b6dea	953.64 MB
Lync2013_TS-10.bin SHA1: 5ac3be5079ed3df07623d58936febed76ce50992	13.98 MB
Lync2013_TS-2.bin SHA1: 9ebd0a3de812a639ddb591a2c9627de27ce51690	953.94 MB
Lync2013_TS-3.bin SHA1: 87622046d91300d18c1e0231ac5652c09ac0eebe	953.96 MB
Lync2013_TS-4.bin SHA1: a4ccdf69bf6bf3da06fe1c0ce2425cd48da06b78	953.97 MB
Lync2013_TS-5.bin SHA1: 1b5555e71419ac39ea45eaa9604a1971b22aa962	953.97 MB
Lync2013_TS-6.bin SHA1: 016c9b4423c42005f9bfc5b942a82f32ca35395f	953.96 MB
Lync2013_TS-7.bin SHA1: 74632b45e16a15132a203b727a61cea2b903df47	953.96 MB
Lync2013_TS-8.bin SHA1: ae1337219ae89f8df5e3b0deb7ac3a6ec9a8afab	953.96 MB
Lync2013_TS-9.bin SHA1: 3e3def16696bbb71d0c2892d866c8c3526b882fe	953.97 MB
Lync2013_TS.exe SHA1: 899d837c2121f8be13e8a1062b8e6cbc248d41b8	305 KB
LyncServer2013_QuickStartGuide_Final.docx SHA1: 507119a196aa156fe93ff6e2c79a811e537f4a32	164 KB

File sizes and hashes are retrieved from the Wayback Machine’s indexes. They may not match the latest versions of files hosted on Microsoft servers.

• Windows Server 2008 R2 Standard
  Windows Server 2008 R2 Enterprise
  Windows Server 2012 Standard
  Windows Server 2012 Datacenter
  
  Windows Server 2008 R2 or Windows Server 2012 Hyper-V is required to use this virtual machine. In addition to the system requirements for Windows Server 2008 R2 or Windows Server 2012 as described in the release notes, a 64-bit system with hardware-assisted virtualization enabled and data execution prevention (DEP) is required.
  
  It is also recommended to ensure that you have a clean install of x64 edition of Windows Server 2008 R2 or Windows Server 2012 to be able to use the Hyper-V technology.
  
  Prerequisites, installation steps, OS recommendations, and known issues of Hyper-V can be found here.

• In order to use this evaluation package you will need to have Microsoft Hyper-V installed on a physical machine.
  
  Hyper-V is available on Windows Server 2008 R2 or Windows Server 2012 and the details on how to install Hyper-V can be found here. Details of how to setup the VHD are included in the documentation that accompanies the product.
  
  To find out more about the VHD Test Drive program, please visit www.microsoft.com/vhd
  
  To find more information about Lync Server 2013, please visit www.microsoft.com/lync
  
  To find more information about Lync Platform Development, please visit www.msdn.com/lync
  
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