Microsoft Exchange Server 2013: Connectivity, Clients, and UM

Integrating Exchange UM and Lync Server

Perhaps no area of integration between Lync and Exchange is more complex than UM integration. However, after you have a functioning Exchange UM set up (as detailed in Chapter 6) on the premises, tying it together with Lync is fairly simple because Exchange treats Lync as just another IP PBX. (Configuring integration between hosted Lync and on-premises Exchange, or vice versa, is significantly more complex and also rare, so these cases aren’t covered here.)

For the remainder of this section, I’ll assume that you have read and applied the material in Chapter 6. You don’t have to have a completely functional Exchange UM environment, but you should understand the concepts covered therein to set up integration ...