Lync Server Cookbook

Defining dial plans

As we mentioned before, for Enterprise Voice, Lync requires a dial plan that contains normalization rules that elaborate the phone number typed in by the user and standardizes it to the E.164 format. Normalization rules use .NET regular expressions (http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/hs600312.aspx).

Getting ready

As a starting point, I have used the UK-London-Lync.ps1 script generated with Ken Lasko's Lync Dialing Rule Optimizer.

How to do it...

1. To generate normalization rules, it is necessary to have at least an existing dial plan. We can create a site-level dial plan with the following cmdlet:

   New-CsDialPlan -identity Site:Site001

2. The normalization rules created with the following cmdlets will be associated with the previously ...