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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 routes


When a Lync user dials a phone number, we must match it with an object in E.164 format defined in Lync (such as a user, a call park orbit, or an unassigned number) or we need to have a corresponding voice route. If the aforementioned configuration is not true, we will have a SIP error 404, meaning a "No matching rule" in this scenario. Regular expressions (that we have already seen) are used also in voice routes to specify the numbers the route will apply using the following options:

  • We can use the Build a pattern to match function to generate a regular expression

  • Or we can write it manually

These options are shown in the following screenshot:

This way, we have created a voice route for the U.K. – London zone, and then typing the phone number, we have automatically applied the normalization rule.

The match tool allows two types of pattern matching: starting digits for numbers that you want to allow or exceptions. We can also select Suppress caller ID, if we want to hide the ID of...