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Step 1. Configure Unified Messaging on Microsoft Exchange to Work with Office Communications Server

Topic Last Modified: 2009-05-06

Important

If you are not using Microsoft Exchange Server 2007 Unified Messaging (UM) to provide call answering, Outlook Voice Access, or auto-attendant services for Enterprise Voice (as might be the case, for example, if you deploy Office Communications Server in a PBX coexistence scenario), skip this step and proceed to Step 2. Create Location Profiles.

The following tools must be available on each server running Exchange Unified Messaging:

  • The Exchange Management Shell (also known as PowerShell).
  • The script exchucutil.ps1, which performs the following tasks:
    • Creates a UM IP gateway for each Office Communications Server 2007 R2 Enterprise Pool.
    • Creates a hunt group for each gateway. The pilot identifier of each hunt group specifies the UM dial plan used by the Enterprise Pool that is associated with the gateway.
    • Grants Office Communications Server permission to read Exchange UM objects in Active Directory.

The script exchucutil.ps1 is by default installed in <exchange_install_directory>\Scripts\.

Requirements and Recommendations

Before you begin:

  • Make sure that you have deployed the following Exchange server roles: Hub Transport, Client Access, Mailbox, and Unified Messaging. For details about deploying Exchange Server 2007 SP1, see the Microsoft Exchange Server 2007 product documentation at https://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkID=129672.

    Note

    You can deploy the Exchange Server roles either in the same or a different forest as Office Communications Server 2007 R2.

  • Read Plan for Exchange Server 2007 SP1 Unified Messaging in Office Communications Server at https://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=126708. Integrating Exchange Server Unified Messaging and Communications Server requires careful planning and a clear understanding of the technologies involved, the features you want to enable, and important configuration details that you must be aware of to successfully complete your deployment.

Also note the following:

  • If Exchange Server Unified Messaging is installed in multiple forests, the Exchange integration steps must be performed for each UM forest. In addition, each UM forest must be configured to trust the forest in which Communications Server is deployed, and the forest in which Communications Server is deployed must be configured to trust the each UM forest.
  • The integration steps are performed on both the server running Exchange Server Unified Messaging and the server running Communications Server. You should perform the Exchange Server Unified Messaging integration steps before you do the Communications Server integration steps.
  • For an overview of the Exchange 2007 SP1 Unified Messaging integration process, descriptions of supported topologies, and a list of planning tasks, see Plan for Exchange Server 2007 SP1 Unified Messaging in Office Communications Server at https://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=126708. You are strongly urged to read this topic before you begin the following procedures.

Overview

Configuring Exchange Server Unified Messaging to work with Enterprise Voice consists of the following tasks:

  • Creating one or more UM dial plans, along with their subscriber access phone numbers as needed, and then creating corresponding location profiles.
  • Using the exchucutil.ps1 script to:
    • Create UM IP gateways.
    • Create UM hunt groups.
    • Grant Communications Server permission to read UM Active Directory objects.
  • Creating a UM auto-attendant object.
  • Creating a subscriber access object.
  • Creating a SIP URI for each user and associating users with a UM dial plan.