Skype for Business

Add a Microsoft Skype for Business client interface to XPhone Connect Directory to link Skype front-end servers.

1. Basic settings

In this step, you can determine the basic settings for the client interface. You can allocate a name and a description and specify whether the client interface is connected automatically upon starting of the XPhone Connect Directory.

  1. Name

    Enter a name for the client interface you want to add. This name is later displayed in the XPhone Connect Directory administrator interface.

  2. Description

    As an option, enter a description of the client interface. Here you can enter an extended description that provides further information about the client interface.

  3. Activate automatically upon start of the XPhone Connect Server

    If you do not want the client interface to be connected upon start of the XPhone Connect Server, uncheck the corresponding box (default setting: aktiv ).

2. Skype front-end server

  • add_button_green Add

    Click Add and add the IP address and port of each Skype front-end server on which the Skype for Business Server Connector has been installed.

  • edit Edit

    Select the entry to be edited and click Edit. Now you can edit the IP address and port.

  • delete Remove

    Select the entry to be removed and click Remove.

3. Safety

This step allows you to specify whether you wish to allow access to the XPhone Connect Directory for certain client IP addresses only. You can provide individual IP addresses for clients or specify IP address areas for clients authorized to access the XPhone Connect Directory. You can add new IP addresses or IP address areas, edit existing IP addresses or IP address areas and delete existing IP addresses or IP address areas.

Adding IP addresses

  1. Limiting access to

    Activate the check box Limit access to make safety settings.

  2. add_button_green Add

    Click on Add. The dialogue IP address / IP address area opens.

  3. IP address / IP address area

    From the selection list, select whether you want to permit access to an individual IP address or for an IP address area. Enter the IP address or IP address area in the respective field.

  4. Click on Ok to apply the settings.

Editing IP addresses

  1. Highlight the IP addresses or the IP address area and click on edit Edit.

  2. Proceed as described above (add_button_green Adding from point 2).

Deleting IP addresses

Click on Delete delete. If the list no longer contains any IP addresses or an IP address area, deactivate the check box Limit access to. The client interface will be inaccessible although access is not restricted.

6. Telephone number conversion

This step enables you to specify a dialling parameter for each data source or client interface with which automatically completes phone numbers as required with the XPhone Connect Directory. The XPhone Connect Directory uses dialling parameters to standardize the phone numbers of contacts from various data sources; in other words, to give them a uniform format. This is the only way to ensure that the users find the correct contact data during a search.

  1. Select a telephone number conversion

    Here, you select the dialling parameter describing the telephone number format at the location of the users who use this client interface. It is used, for example, to convert a telephone number in international format into the shortest possible display form to achieve the best possible readability for the user.

  2. Selecting the format

    Select a format from the list in which the telephone numbers are to be displayed.

5. Search term prefixes

Search term prefixes enables you to determine what entries in the Skype for Business client lead to search queries in the XPhone Connect Server. Prefixes can be used to enable users to decide what data source categories are to be used for their searches.

  1. Prefixes

    Up to three different prefixes can be configured. The default setting entails searches in own and company data sources only if a search term does not have a prefix. If however the search term starts with a period ., searches will only be carried out in public data sources (such as phone book providers).

  2. Prefix options

    The following options are available for each prefix:

    • search in personal and company data sources only (personal and company contacts)

    • search in public data sources only (public directories)

    • search in all data sources (all contacts)

    • no search in the XPhone Connect Directory (no search)

Searches for phone numbers are always carried out in all data sources in the case of inbound calls.

6. Overview

In this step, you can check the settings you made for the client interface. Make sure that all settings made are correct.

How to complete the configuration

  1. Click on Save to complete the configuration and to add the client interface to the XPhone Connect Directory.

  2. Click Cancel to discard the configuration.

  3. Continuing with field allocation

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    Click on Continue with field allocation to adapt the allocation of the fields of the XPhone Connect Directory allocation scheme to the fields of the client interface.

    • If you created a new configuration, you will be asked to save the configuration first.

    • If you opened a new configuration, you can continue with the allocation.

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