Microsoft Lync

* Please note this is a new service and not a standard setup. Please contact Nehos Sales on 1300 726 889 or email sales@nehos.net for further information.

Microsoft Lync requires a static public IP address to be able to use Nehos.

You will need to provide us with your public IP address and port number that your Lync server is using to communicate with us.

To enable inbound calls to use Microsoft Lync you will need to inform us what DID number/s will be terminating on your equipment from Nehos along with the IP address and port of your equipment.

We do not support TLS only TCP with Lync so this needs to be set at TCP only.

The default SIP domain needs to be sip.nehos.com.au

NEHOS LYNC 2013 CONFIG GUIDE

This document presumes a basic working knowledge of Lync 2013 

Our Lab environment

  1. Working Lync Server (this document is based on Single  Lync 2013 with Edge server)
  2. Firewall rules enabled as per Microsoft recommendations shown below

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Reference http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/gg425891.aspx

Configure Lync Topology with Nehos connection

Open Lync server 2013 Topology Builder and select New IP/PSTN Gateway shown below

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The PSTN gateway is sip.nehos.com.au

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You can accept the default for the IP address

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The port settings should match you setup noting that the protocol MUST be TCP and Nehos use 5060 as there default port

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Click finish to complete and confirm you should now see the following configuration in Topology Builder

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The last step is to Publish the new topology

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Configure Lync Server
Open the Lync Server 2013 Control Panel

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Select Voice Routing

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Create a New User Dial plan

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Name the Dial plan appropriately

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Normalisation rules are extremely important, they provide a standard way of defining all calls and making the dial sequences consistent.

By default the dial plan will have a “Keep all” normalisation rule, you can leave this in place however it is suggested that you amend this to match PSTN numbers or numbers with at least 6 digits if you are using Nehos extensions as internal users otherwise 7 digits if the recommended setting.

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Add normalised rules so that all calls are rewritten into E.164 format, suggested names shown, click New to add the additional rules.

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Name Starting digits Length Remove Digits to Add
Local code [2-9]  =8  0  +61 < Your local area
STD 0 =10 1 +61
13 13 =6 0 +61
1300 1300 =10 0 +61
1800 1800 =10 0 +61
INTL 0011 >10 4 +
EMG 000 =3 0 +61000
E.164 + >4 0

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When you are finished the setup should look like the above, click OK to continue

Commit all changes

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Next Select Trunk Configuration and create a new Site Trunk

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Your PSTN Gateway created in the Topology should appear in the list, select and click ok

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The settings here are specific to Nehos, The encryption should be set to “Not supported” and Refer Support set to none, Nehos does not currently provide TLS support.

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Scroll down to translation rules and add a rule for E.164 calls as follows

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Click ok to close to save translation rules and ok to close Site trunk, then commit all changes

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You will be prompted to confirm changes as follows

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Select the Route tab to configure routing options for calls, create New Route

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Since we normalised all calls with a + and E.164 format we need to add + in the pattern to match and then select add to associate with Nehos PSTN trunk configured earlier.

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Click ok to close and commit all changes

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Now you need to select the Voice policy and create new Voice Policy for users

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Check all the options you wish to make available and then
Select New to associate PSTN usage options

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Click Select and choose the Nehos Voice Route created earlier

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Click OK and then commit all changes and confirm

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The last step in Voice Routing is to test the configuration, if at this point you get any failures one of the steps above is either incorrect or incomplete, you should review before continuing.

Select Test Voice routing and create a New Test case.

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You can create many test cases however at a minimum the following should work, this is a test to confirm you can call Nehos, on selecting Run you should get results as per below.

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Finally we need to setup users to be able to make calls, in order to achieve this a user needs to have “Enterprise Voice” enabled and have a telephone number, these are entered as
tel:+<number>;ext=<internal number>

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If you have completed all the steps above you are ready to test, please ensure you have provided Nehos with your Public IP address and have the relevant firewall rules in place, if so provide these details to Nehos.

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