• Integrating AudioCodes MP-114/MP-118 Media Gateways with Microsoft Unified Communications Products

      As one of the Subject Matter Experts (SMEs) for the Microsoft Exchange Unified Messaging product within Microsoft CSS, I am often asked how to provide PSTN connectivity to both Office Communications Server 2007 and to Exchange UM.  Microsoft...
  • (Part 1 of 3) The complete step-by-step setup guide for deploying Microsoft Unified Communications products with Enterprise Voice in a lab environment using a single Windows Server 2008 Hyper-V computer and a single Internet IP address

    As a Senior Support Escalation Engineer with the Unified Communications team at Microsoft, I help a lot of customers install Microsoft Unified Communications products in either their production or lab environment.  I often find that for many smaller...
  • How to get a free DID SIP Trunk for testing your Unified Communications lab environment

    I recently stumbled on a free offering for a DID SIP Trunk (inbound calls only) from a company called IP Communications.  Having already added a magicJack device to my Unified Communications lab for routing both inbound and outbound calls, an additional...
  • How to configure interoperability between Microsoft Exchange Server 2010 Unified Messaging and pbxnsip IP PBX version 3.0

    Introduction This guide describes how to configure interoperability between Microsoft Exchange Server 2010 Unified Messaging and pbxnsip IP PBX version 3.0 .   pbxnsip is an IP PBX solution for Windows that supports SIP communication over either...
  • Automatically restart failed Exchange services using PowerShell...

    New blog... first post. Unfortunately I don't have anything ground breaking or earth shattering to share. Oh wait, there's this, at least... This morning when I arrived at work, I found that my main Hyper-V server had been restarted due to the installation...