Routing calls based off Active Directory LDAP lookups can be a handy feature to utilize. Personally speaking, I don’t typically use LDAP for much else than authentication with Sonus and Audiocodes devices,Read More…
For all the grief that IT architects and engineers give the SIP RFC “standard” causing interoperability issues between different systems/vendors, I could argue that ISDN suffers from similar – although not quiteRead More…
Full Disclosure I truly stink at scripting and rather dread it. I knew early on in my career that programming was not a strength of mine, so I chose to gravitate towardsRead More…
Despite the major announcements around Microsoft’s change to position Teams as the first-and-foremost UC solution in the portfolio over Skype4B, the other just-as-big-change was the announcement that the underlying network infrastructure usedRead More…
Updated 9/28/2017 – Including direct references to Ignite content relevant to architecture Ignite 2017 has turned out to be quite the stir for Unified Communications…err…I mean, Intelligent Communications. The big news thatRead More…
On the week of January 9, 2017, Microsoft added some considerable new offerings within the Skype Operations Framework. While SOF is helpful in many aspects, its breadth and scope make it difficultRead More…
12/20/2016 – Updated to include alternate IP-to-IP Routing configuration SIP OPTIONS requests are a crucial piece of functionality for Lync/Skype4B deployments, but even so, OPTIONS requests are utilized within other Unified CommunicationsRead More…
First off, all opinions and thoughts here are my own. You, my dear reader, are not required to agree with me nor are you required to read the post. Continue at yourRead More…
8/30/2016 – Additional information/clarification regarding outbound dialing & PSTN Consumption Billing Microsoft is ever-expanding the availability of PSTN conferencing services within Skype4B Online, adding significant geographic footprint every 6 months, or so. Read More…
In the midst of a 2010 to 2013 migration, a requirement was proposed that was, well, one of those ‘head scratcher’ asks: “We are upgrading from Group Chat 2010 to Persistent Chat but we don’tRead More…