[cisco-voip] CUCM 10.5 and Office 365

[James Andrewartha]

So it turns out Microsoft is killing SBC integration with Exchange
Online UM on 1 July 2018, needless to say their customers are not happy:

https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/Exchange/Discontinuation-of-support-for-Session-Border-Controllers-in/m-p/88228

There are some options like
https://tsoorad.blogspot.com.au/2017/09/audiocodes-x-um.html but they
may require CloudPBX licensing? Not sure.

Anyway, this has just killed our Exchange Online migration.

On 07/07/17 11:40, James Andrewartha wrote:
> On 06/07/17 16:13, Gary Parker wrote:
>> Hi Terry, our setup is very similar to yours (except we’re on 11.5, as opposed to 10.5) with the addition of a Cisco Unity Connection server for voicemail. CUCM is configured with voicemail ports pointing to the CUC server which holds the voicemail, sets MWI state, and duplicates the messages to our O365 mailboxes. The O365 integration is configured as a “Unified Messaging Service” within CUC and obviously relies on proper LDAP integration to ensure your Directory Numbers match up properly with users you configure to have unified voicemail boxes.
> 
> We've been stuck with on-premises Exchange because we use it for
> voicemail, and I've been put off by the fact our voicemail is directly
> in Exchange UM. That and S4B in 365 is clearly not a solution for us in
> Australia as they don't do PSTN integration without local SBCs.
> http://forums.whirlpool.net.au/archive/2578229
> 
> But at least now I know there are options if we stick with CUCM (which
> is fairly likely given our reliance on Informacast). I'm still a bit
> hesitant as there's 50+ms of latency to our 365 tenancy.
> 
>> It appears you can do this without CUC, and connect directly to Exchange from CUCM via a SIP trunk (http://www.wavecoreit.com/blog/exchange/how-to-setup-cucm-10-5-for-exchange-2013-unified-messaging-voicemail/) but I don’t know if this will work with a hybrid O365 deployment and you get a *lot* more functionality from CUC (the main one being IVRs).
> 
> Exchange UM can do IVRs, although they call them auto attendants. S4B
> 365 only just got AAs in its Cloud PBX product. Either way I'm not
> really interested in using CUC
> 
>> Also, this from Cisco support communities (https://communities.cisco.com/thread/31729):
>> If you are talking about using CUCM on premise and Exchange UM in the cloud then Cisco doesn't endorse or support it. MSFT has had an app note for it but it uses third party border controllers and you will have to work with two vendors support.
> 
> https://blogs.technet.microsoft.com/nexthop/2016/04/16/how-to-integrate-a-pbxip-pbx-phone-system-with-o365-exchange-um-online/
> is from last year and notes the ASR 1000 is a supported SBC, along with
> AcmePacket, AudioCodes, Ingate, NET and Sonus.
> 
> I wonder if it would be possible to use ExpressRoute to talk directly to
> the Exchange UM SBC from CUCM without having to use your own SBC, like
> you can do with on-premises Exchange
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James Andrewartha
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