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FreePBX 2.5 Powerful Telephony Solutions

By : Alex Robar
Book Image

FreePBX 2.5 Powerful Telephony Solutions

By: Alex Robar

Overview of this book

FreePBX is an easy-to-use GUI that controls and manages Asterisk. It gives you pre-programmed functionality accessible through user-friendly web interfaces that allows you to have a fully functional PBX pretty much straight away with no programming. With this book it's easy to master the many features of FreePBX, which will help you to save time and money as you set up your enterprise-class network. This book will guide you through these features to install, configure, and maintain a professional PBX with plenty of examples and screenshots. By the end of this book, you will have learned to create an enterprise-class VoIP PBX that features the stability and feature set of traditional telephony systems without the hefty price tag. This book will help its readers to roll out a robust, web-based, and inexpensive yet powerful telephony solution through the GUI. By following the practical examples in this book, you will learn how to install, configure, and manage an enterprise-class PBX using open source telephony tools Asterisk and FreePBX. From here on, this book takes a closer look at the open source telephony engine software, discussing a broad range of topics from how to build and deploy an enterprise-class VoIP PBX to creating VoIP trunks using SIP, IAX2, and ZAP technologies and setting up user extensions with voicemail. FreePBX 2.5 Powerful Telephony Solutions will introduce you to advanced options such as call routing, voicemail, and other calling features. Finally, this book will provide you with the relevant information to help you personalize and secure your PBX.
Table of Contents (20 chapters)
FreePBX 2.5 Powerful Telephony Solutions
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewer
Preface
Voicemail.conf Options

Phonebook Directory


Phonebook Directory targets do not require setting up any additional configuration beyond initial user setup. The Phonebook Directory allows a caller to search for a user's extension by dialing the first three letters of their first, last, or first and last name. As long as the user has the Voicemail & Directory option enabled, they will be listed in the directory.

The Phonebook Directory has a few options that are configurable on the General Settings page. To configure these options, click on the General Settings link under the Basic header in the FreePBX navigation menu:

Scroll down to the Company Directory section to locate all directory options:

The Find users in the Company Directory by option allows the directory to be searched by first name, last name, or both.

When Announce Extension is enabled, it will play a message stating the extension number of the person who is being called after the caller has located them in the directory.

The value of Operator Extension...