Professional Windows® PowerShell for Exchange Server 2007 Service Pack 1

Unified Messaging

When Microsoft released Exchange Server 2007, one of the coolest features included was Unified

Messaging. For those who are not familiar with this, Unified Messaging, or UM (pronounced

either as the two letters individually or as the interjection that speech coaches despise), is a role

within Exchange that allows users to receive voicemail and faxes directly to their mailboxes! It will

even let you dial a number and then play your messages, read your email, and dictate your

schedule to you. This role also integrates with Microsoft Office Communicator Server to create one

of the feature - rich IP voice systems to date. UM fills a very important niche because it allows IT

departments to reduce the complexity of the infrastructure and enables them to retire aging voice

mail platforms. For more information on UM please see

microsoft.com/technet/

prodtechnol/exchange/2007/evaluate/overview/default.mspx

.

To get the most out of this chapter, you must have the UM role installed on a server (see Chapter 3

for installation information). It is also advantageous, though not required, to have a cursory

understanding of how phone systems, PBXs, and audio encoding work.

In Chapter 3 you learned how to install the UM role. Now you are going to build from there and

configure UM with the minimum amount of options to make it work. From there you add onto

these ...