With Telephony / Enterprise Voice enabled in a Skype for Business of Lync on-premises environment, one of the requested features could be Voicemail. In full on-premises deployments this will require Unified Messaging to be installed, configured and enabled in the Exchange Server topology. However, when your environment or customer makes use of Office 365 for
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Read moreOne most common task of a Lync deployment is to connect Exchange UM to Microsoft Lync for voicemail purposes. Recently, I came across a major flaw in this procedure. To be compliant with the customers’ server naming convention, underscores were used in both server- and pool names. While it is not recommended using underscores in Lync
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Read moreThis could be, for example, Lync- or Exchange Online / Office365. Recently, federation broke when implementing “voicemail in the cloud” with Microsoft’s Exchange Online. Microsoft Exchange was configured in Hybrid mode, all successful and operational – users could be moved back and forth and use either Exchange on-premise or Exchange online. Unified Messaging was already enabled
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Read moreWhen configuring Exchange Unified Messaging, the last step in the process is to enable a mailbox for Unified Messaging. This means, each individual user from OCS need to have a mailbox, and this mailbox needs to be enabled for UM. In my situation, all OCS users already had an exchange mailbox, as only the UM
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