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Lync Voice Mail Survivability (SA) with Exchange Unified Messaging

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The SBA is aware of the centrally configured Exchange Unified Messaging component. Additional it is important to understand the process of Voice Mail Survivability. While the VoicemailReroutingConfiguration in Lync provides the SBA with an alternative path, rerouted via PSTN to the central Exchange UM site. The SBA is continuously check the SIP availability of the Exchange UM component, using the SIP OPTION based health checking. (Indeed, both SBA and non SBA Lync registrars act in the same way for all components, e.g. Exchange UM and other Gateway-SBC). Once the SIP OPTION command is sent, the sender expects an SIP 200 OK answer. Lync tries this health check several time even after it do NOT receive a 200 OK. As result of not receiving, the registrar will mark this target as DOWN and stop sending calls. Note: You can drill down this process, if you us OCSLogger and Snooper catching the OPTION and 200 OK communication directly on the SBA. Back to the Exchange UM, if Exchange ...

Secured, SIP Secured and Unsecured Voice integration Exchange

In Exchange 2007/ 2010/ 2013, you are able to set different security configuration for your SIP Traffic. Therefore special configuration between Gateway, Lync (via Exchange Dial Plans) and Server-to-Server Communication can be defined. Let talk about Exchange 2013 and Lync 2013 UM integration, especially for your configuration in your live environment.   With Exchange Administration Center (EAC) or the Set-UMDialPlan cmdlet in PowerShell you can define your SIP Security configuration. When you configure the UM dial plan to use SIP secured* ( [-VoIPSecurity <SIPSecured | Unsecured | Secured>]) or Secured mode, Client Access and Mailbox servers will encrypt the SIP signaling traffic or the RTP media channels or both. For Lync, you need the special SIP Secured Mode (described below) VoIP security mode, can be configured as: -           SIP secured (SIP Secured setting only protect SIP traffic using TLS while RTP tr...