Acme Packet SBC for Office 365 UM with CUCM

28th of November, 2013 / / 2 Comments

Office 365 Exchange Online can provide Unified Messaging (UM) functionality such as voicemail for on-premises telephony systems. Configuring integration between Exchange Online UM and Lync is a straightforward process assuming you already have Enterprise Voice and a Lync Edge server in place. There is TechNet documentation for Lync 2013 and Lync 2010 or an older Office 365 Checklist.

Things get a lot more complicated when you want to use a different telephony system, for example Cisco Unified Communications Manager (CUCM).… [Keep reading] “Acme Packet SBC for Office 365 UM with CUCM”

Do It Yourself Web API Proxy

24th of November, 2013 / / 13 Comments

I had promised a couple of blogs on dealing with the challenges of distance that are unavoidable as we adopt a variety of dispersed Cloud deployed services. The first was using a WCF Custom Channel to cache SharePoint content which is now a bit old school. This is the second.

The rate of change at the moment is astonishing. I’ve been sitting on blog number two for quite some time, but when I go to build an example and type it up, something new has come along that is a slightly better way of doing it.… [Keep reading] “Do It Yourself Web API Proxy”

Exchange 2013 DNS Settings Cause Transport Services to Crash

22nd of November, 2013 / / 2 Comments

I ran into a problem at a customer recently with two Exchange 2013 servers where the ‘Microsoft Exchange Frontend Transport’ (MSExchangeFrontEndTransport) service would crash continually. It would eventually bring down the ‘Microsoft Exchange Transport’ (MSExchangeTransport) and ‘Microsoft Exchange Mailbox Transport Submission’ (MSExchangeSubmission) services. This meant the server was responding to SMTP connections with ‘451 4.7.0 Temporary server error. Please try again later. PRX2’ on attempting to submit a message.

The primary error in the Event Log was Event ID 1000:

Faulting application name: MSExchangeFrontendTransport.exe,
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Use Mobile Services Scripting to invoke a BizTalk Service Bridge to insert into LOB SQL Azure Database.

13th of November, 2013 / / No Comments

Introduction

This blog demonstrates the key fundamentals in creating, invoking and deploying a Windows Azure BizTalk Services (WABS) Message Flow Itinerary to Azure, inserting data into a Windows Azure SQL Database.

It also uses the new Scripting feature of Azure Mobile Services to integrate with BizTalk Services.

Scenario

In the Managed Services Business Unit for the company I work for, a person every month was using MS Excel to generate monthly reports based on various Service Desk metrics.… [Keep reading] “Use Mobile Services Scripting to invoke a BizTalk Service Bridge to insert into LOB SQL Azure Database.”