Integrating Unified Messaging servers with a VoIP solution

Configuring Unified Messaging servers

This is part #6 from "Microsoft Exchange Server 2007 Unified Messaging for administrators," excerpted from Chapter 9 of the book Microsoft Exchange Server 2007: The Complete Reference, published by McGraw-Hill Osborne Media.

After the PBX has been integrated with an IP gateway or an IP PBX has been deployed, you will need to integrate the Unified Messaging server with the IP gateway or IP PBX. Although a number of administrative tasks can be performed from the Exchange Management Console (EMC), you may want to review the cmdlets available for administering the Unified Messaging servers and UM users from the Exchange Management Shell (EMS) shown in Table 5.

Integrating Unified Messaging servers with a VoIP solution requires a minimum number of configurations performed in a specific order. These steps should be performed after the gateway and legacy PBX or IP PBX have been tested and are functioning:

1. Create a dial plan.
2. Create a UM IP gateway.
3. Create a UM mailbox plan.
4. Create a UM hunt.
5. Create UM dialing rules.
6. Assign UM dialing rules to the dial plan and to the mailbox policy.
7. Generate GAL Grammar.

Following this procedure will guarantee that you have meet the prerequisite(s) for each step you are performing in sequence.

Get-UMActiveCalls	New-UMDialplan	Disable-UMAutoAttendant
Get-UMAutoAttendant	New-UMAutoAttendant	Disable-UMIPGateway
Get-UMDialplan	Set-UMServer	Enable-UMIPGateway
Get-UMHuntGroup	Set-UMAutoAttendant	Enable-UMMailbox
Get-UMIPGateway	Set-UMMailbox	Enable-UMAutoAttendant
Get-UMMailbox	Set-UMMailboxPolicy	Enable-UMServer
Get-UMMailboxPIN	Set-UMMailboxPIN	Remove-UMHuntGroup
Get-UMMailboxPolicy	Set-UMIPGateway	Remove-UMAutoAttendant
Get-UMServer	Set-UMDialplan	Remove-UMIPGateway
New-UMIPGateway	Test-UMConnectivity	Remove-UMDialplan
New-UMHuntGroup	Disable-UMMailbox	Remove-UMMailboxPolicy
New-UMMailboxPolicy	Disable-UMServer

Table 5 Unified Messaging Cmdlets (Service Pack 1)

Microsoft Exchange Server 2007 Unified Messaging for administrators

 Home: Introduction to Unified Messaging on Exchange 2007
 Part 1: An intro to voice systems for Exchange administrators
 Part 2: Unified Messaging features in Exchange Server 2007
 Part 3: Defining Exchange Unified Messaging architecture
 Part 4: Deploying Unified Messaging servers on Exchange Server 2007
 Part 5: Comparing VoIP PBX solutions for Unified Messaging
 Part 6: Integrating Unified Messaging servers with a VoIP solution
 Part 7: Creating a Unified Messaging Dial Plan
 Part 8: Configuring a Unified Messaging IP gateway
 Part 9: Mailbox policy configuration for Unified Messaging
 Part 10: Creating and assigning a Unified Messaging hunt group
 Part 11: Dialing rules and restrictions for Unified Messaging users
 Part 12: Assigning Unified Messaging dialing rules to a mailbox policy
 Part 13: Executing Unified Messaging grammar generation
 Part 14: Enabling Unified Messaging mailboxes and users

This chapter excerpt from Microsoft Exchange Server 2007: The Complete Reference, by Richard Luckett, William Lefkovics and Bharat Suneja, is printed with permission from McGraw-Hill Osborne Media, Copyright 2008. Click here for the chapter download or purchase the book here.