Cisco Cisco Expressway
Appendix 3: Assistance with Prerequisite Tasks
Verify Calls Between Lync Clients
This is a prerequisite to integrating Expressway with your Microsoft Lync environment. The simplified procedures are
listed here but you should refer to the Microsoft documentation for your products.
listed here but you should refer to the Microsoft documentation for your products.
Enable Users for Lync
By default, Active Directory users are not Lync enabled. Check that users required to support Lync are enabled to do
so, and if not enable them. This can be done both by Lync Server Control Panel or through Windows PowerShell
commands.
so, and if not enable them. This can be done both by Lync Server Control Panel or through Windows PowerShell
commands.
To enable AD users for Lync using the Lync Server Control Panel:
1.
Open the Lync Server Control Panel and find the Users section.
2.
Find the control to enable users, which allows you to search for and add existing AD users.
3.
Assign the selected users to the appropriate Lync Server pool.
4.
Select which AD user properties are used to generate the users' SIP URIs.
To enable AD users for Lync, using PowerShell:
Use the command
enable-csuser
. For example:
enable-csuser -identity "example\alice.parkes" -registrarpool "fepool.example.com" -sipaddress
sip:alice.parkes@example.com
sip:alice.parkes@example.com
Register Lync Clients to Lync Server
1.
Install and run the Lync client.
2.
Enter the SIP URI as the sign-in address.
3.
Point the client to the FQDN of the correct Lync FE pool.
4.
Save the configuration and verify log in.
Test Calls
1.
Select a contact in the Lync client
2.
Start a video call
3.
Answer the call with the contact's Lync client
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