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Getting Started with Microsoft Lync Server 2013

By : Fabrizio Volpe
Book Image

Getting Started with Microsoft Lync Server 2013

By: Fabrizio Volpe

Overview of this book

Lync 2013 is a product that enables users to IM, and have audio and video conferences, including multi-party video. The mobile client permits the use of all the features in every device with an access-from-everywhere logic. The company’s Active Directory users, SharePoint documents, and Exchange objects integrate with Lync to deliver most of the advanced features. Getting Started with Microsoft Lync Server 2013 will give you all the relevant information you need to enable voice features, select the best Lync client in different scenarios, make your Lync services available to the external users, empower the collaborative environment of Persistent Chat Server rooms, and to build an affordable unified communication system. Getting Started with Microsoft Lync Server 2013 will explore all the concepts you need to administer and plan a Lync 2013 environment in a short time, explaining the background mechanisms of the system.It begins with the deployment of a Lync frontend and SQL mirroring solution, including all the requirements and tips clearly laid out. It proceeds with the Front End pairing, mobility, and mediation server deployment with media bypass. It covers a core chapter about Enterprise Voice with a closing part on Persistent Chat and on clients with their characteristics. Getting Started with Microsoft Lync Server 2013 will give you all the relevant information you need to enable voice features, and will help to select the best Lync client in different scenarios.
Table of Contents (15 chapters)
Getting Started with Microsoft Lync Server 2013
Credits
About the Author
Acknowledgments
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

Voice policies


Lync voice policies limit Enterprise Voice functionality available to users (Voice Policy Entitlements) and authorized types of calls (PSTN Usages).

The policies define the following for each user, site, or organization that is assigned the policy:

  • A set of Enterprise Voice features that can be enabled or disabled

  • A definition of authorized calls made by the PSTN usage records

Voice policies are configured after selecting a voice route in the Voice Routing section, as we can see in the following screenshot. The available scopes for every voice policy are User, Site, and Global (a default Global policy is created during the installation phase) with the logic we have already seen of the most specific policy that will be applied over the other ones.

The features we can configure in the policy are the ones we can see in the following screenshot:

The default situation is the one depicted in the previous screenshot: call forwarding, delegation, call transfer, simultaneous ringing, team...