Archive for October, 2010
Microsoft late yesterday announced that their latest iteration of Communications Server (now dubbed Lync Server) has RTM’ed, for those that are unaware… this a term used to indicate that a software release has reached a point whereby it is ready to or has been delivered or provided to the customer. General availability for Lync is expected on November […]
For those who don’t already know, Asterisk is widely regarded as THE open source IP PBX, it is extremely cost effective within smaller organisations (although perfectly capable within larger environments) and labs – I have previously written integration guides for both Microsoft Exchange and Lync (Asterisk is great as a low cost gateway for labs etc.) Late last week Asterisk […]
Once a year I give my “blessing” to the wife to go away on a long weekend with the girls and usually I try to call in a few child minding favours from my parents/in-laws and this weekend, thank goodness, is no exception to the rule!
Last time I was given these days of peace I wrote a Trixbox/Exchange 2010 integration guide, the emphasis was on this becoming the first in a series of how-to’s – however this never really came to fruition, the reason? Asterisk + friendly UI = Bad bad bad…so from here on in I have chosen to move to AsteriskNOW.
Trixbox is a great distribution of Asterisk, however it does break certain Asterisk standards and you can’t beat a good ol’ command line – yes in Asterisk’s case the command line is easier than a web interface.
So why not plain old Asterisk? AsteriskNOW makes light work of the install and I’m by no means a Linux guru! You can still opt for the FreePBX front end – but we will choose to not go down this dark path – trust me on this!
So let’s talk objectives…
Setup AsteriskNOW, configuring a SIP extension and corresponding dial-plan
Install and configure Skype for Asterisk (SFA), ensuring the SIP extension above can route in/out (SkypeOut)
Take the Lync 2010 Server install performed here and integrate it with AsteriskNOW
Make calls to and from the Asterisk SIP extension (Lync & SFA)
Make calls to and from the Lync client (SIP & SFA)
So here is an idea of how this will all piece together:
Sounds like a tall order right? Wrong. With AsteriskNOW and Lync Server 2010, it is reasonably straight forward and I will endeavour to document the end-to-end setup process.
