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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

Direct inward dialing


DID is a unique number, which we need to associate to a Lync user, every time we enable the Enterprise Voice option (as we can see in the following screenshot) or the conference features.

It is not a mandatory setting, but if a user does not have a DID number, he or she can only be reached through an internal extension.

Note

It is a best practice to also populate the Active Directory (AD) with phone numbers that are globally unique because Lync relies on the AD to provide a company-wide directory service.

The format of the Tel URI is dictated by the RFC 3966. The number used in the previous figure is a E.164 number, so we have the + sign, the Country Code, the City / Area Code, and the Local (User) Number. The result is a phone number that can be used to call the Lync user directly from a public/PSTN telephony system. The Ext parameter is a supported extension that we need for conferencing (for example, in dial-in conferencing to authenticate the user). To have a representation...