Versions Compared

Key

  • This line was added.
  • This line was removed.
  • Formatting was changed.
Panel

In this section:

Table of Contents
maxLevel3

Excerpt Include
Not_for_SWe
Not_for_SWe
nopaneltrue

Overview — Configure the
Spacevars
0product
 for

 

Add_docset_workflow
AUTH1ghoppe
DEV2rgulati
DEV1lisa-neyen
LDEV1ghoppe
SVT1hgezer
LSVT1ghoppe
AUTHJIDSYM-19438

Section
Column
width800px

On this Page

Table of Contents
maxLevel4

...

On-Premise PBX Integration With Skype

...

for Business

This Best Practice describes how to configure the Sonus SBC for

Spacevars
0product
 for On-Premise (OnPrem) PBX integration with Skype For Business (SFBSfB) when the Skype for Business Front End Pool is configured in Trusted Application mode. You must be familiar with configuring Sonus SBC
Spacevars
0product
, MSFT Active Directory, DNS, and Skype For Business in order to perform these steps.

Configuration Steps

Configuration for this feature involves specific settings in the following entities:

  • DNS Server for creating an alias with SBC
    Spacevars
    0product
    's FQDN.
  • Skype for Business Management Shell to create a Trusted Application Pool and a Trusted Application ID.
  • Active Directory to create users in Domain Controller for the OnPrem endpoints, and the Skype for Business Control Panel to enable relevant AD users for SFBSfB.
  • SBC to configure Configure all remaining settings for SFB integration.

Pagebreak

Configure the DNS Server
Anchor
Configuring the DNS Server
Configuring the DNS Server

Login to DNS using domain admin credentials and create an alias for SBC:

Spacevars
0product

Panel
borderStylenone
Caption
0Figure
1Create an Alias

Image Modified

Configure the

...

SfB Management Shell
Anchor
Configuring the SFB Manager
Configuring the SFB Manager

  1. Login to the Skype For for Business Front End Server.
  2. Launch Skype For for Business Server management shell.
  3. Type the following commands to create a Trusted Application Pool and Trusted Application ID:

...

Type the following command to enable CS Topology so that above configuration items can take effect in SFB SfB topology:

Enable-CsTopology

Panel
borderStylenone
Caption
0Figure
1Commands and Output

Image Modified

Span 

Pagebreak

Configure the Active Directory and the

...

SfB Control Panel
Anchor
Configuring the AD and the SFB Control Panel
Configuring the AD and the SFB Control Panel

  1. Login to the Active Directory domain controller machine with domain admin credentials.
  2. Create AD users.
  3. Login to the Skype For for Business front-end server.
  4. Launch the SFB SfB Control Panel.
  5. Enable AD users to be enterprise-enabled SFB SfB users on SFB on SfB Control Panel:
Panel
borderStylenone
Caption
0Figure
1Enable AD Users

Image Modified

...

 

Configure

...

the 
Spacevars
0product
 
Anchor
Configuring the SBC
Configuring the SBC

Configure

...

the 
Spacevars
0product
 Host Name, Domain Suffix, and DNS IP Address

  1.  Login to the SBC WebUI
    Spacevars
    0product
     WebUI and navigate to Node Level Settings.
  2. Configure the SBC host
    Spacevars
    0product
     host name, domain suffix, and the DNS IP address:
Caption
0Figure
1Configure Node-level Settings

Image Removed

Span

 

 

Verifying Certificates on the 
Spacevars
0product

  1. Login to the
    Spacevars
    0product
     WebUI

Verifying Certificates on the SBC

  1. Login to the SBC WebUI and navigate to Security > SBC Certificates.
  2. Verify that the Trusted CA Certificate and Sonus Certificates are installed:

...

0Figure
1Certificates

...

  1. Ribbon Certificates are installed.

 

Info

The following section describes SBC's

Spacevars
0product
analog FXS endpoints with Skype For for Business in this setup:

Caption
0Figure
1Network Diagram: SBC Analog FXS Endpoints With Skype for Business

Image Modified

Determining Configuration Based on Inter-Op Mode

 After completing the basic configuration on the SBC, the SBC can the 

Spacevars
0product
, the 
Spacevars
0product
 can be further integrated in one of three different modes. Click the link that applies to your integration:

  1. o365 with Contact Registrant Table (CRT)
  2. o365 with AD
  3. o365 with CRT and AD

o365 with CRT
Anchor
o365 with CRT
o365 with CRT

Note

This section assumes that projected OnPrem users are SBC

Spacevars
0product
's FXS endpoints, and that the goal is to associate these endpoints with SBC
Spacevars
0product
's Contact Registrant Table and register them with Skype For Business via SBCSkype for Business through the
Spacevars
0product
.

Creating Contact Registrant Table Entries

Create entries for OnPrem users (in this example they are associated to FXS endpoints). These entries must match with the Skype For for Business users' SIP and tel: URI values. 

  1. Login to the SBC WebUI
    Spacevars
    0product
     WebUI and navigate to SIP > Contact Registrant Table.
  2. Create a new table.
  3. Create Contact Registrant Table entries as shown below. Make sure that highlighted values are correspondingly entered . Ensure the Address of Record URI and SIP Contacts correspond to the entries with the SIP and tel: URI values in SFB database.
Caption
0Figure
1Create Contact Registrant Table entries

Image Removed

...

  1. : URI values in SFB database.

 

Note

The user name, number, and URI association in the CRT must match the corresponding entries in the SFB SfB Control Panel:

 

Image Removed

...

 

...

Creating a CAS FXS Profile
  1.  Login to the SBC WebUI the 
    Spacevars
    0product
     WebUI and navigate to CAS >CAS Signaling Profiles.
  2. Create an FXS profile with configuration as shown below:
Panel
borderStylenone
Caption
0Figure
1Creating a CAS FXS Profile

Image Modified

 

span
Pagebreak

 

Creating an FXS to

...

SfB Transformation Table
  1.  Login to the SBC WebUI the 
    Spacevars
    0product
     WebUI and navigate to Transformation.
  2. Create a Transformation Table with a desired number transformation entry as shown below.

...

  1. . For example: a transformation table entry that will translate the 11-digit 15101221201 called number from FXS endpoints to +15101221201.
Caption
0Figure
1Transformation Table

Image Removed

Span

 

Creating an FXS to SFB Call Routing Table
Creating an FXS to SfB Call Routing Table
  1. Login to the 
    Spacevars
    0product
     WebUI and navigate to Call Routing Table.
  2. Create a route between an FXS to SfB.  For details on call routing, refer to Creating and Modifying Entries to Call Routing Tables
  3. Login to the SBC WebUI and navigate to Call Routing Table.
  4. Create a table as shown below.
Call Routing Table
Note

This Route Table entry will use the above transformation table entry and route this call to SIP Signaling group.

Caption
0Figure
1

Image Removed

Span

 

Creating a CAS FXS Signaling Group
  1. Login to the SBC WebUI
    Spacevars
    0product
     WebUI and navigate to Signaling Groups.
  2. Create a CAS FXS Signaling Group by applying the above call route and fxs profile as shown belowby applying the above call route and FXS profile. For details on Signaling Groups, refer to Creating and Modifying SIP Signaling Groups.
Note

In this For example, in a Signaling Group, 4-digit numbers are defined in association of the OnPrem user's tel: URI numbers. For simplicity, 4-digit extensions of the tel: URI is used, such as 1201 for tel:+15101221201.

...

Creating an

...

Spacevars
0

...

Image Removed

Span

 

...

product
 to FXS Transformation Table

  1. Login to the SBC WebUI the 
    Spacevars
    0product
     WebUI and navigate to Transformation.
  2. Create a Transformation Table with a desired number transformation entry as shown below.
1
Note

This For example, a transformation table entry will translate tel: URI number +15101221201 called number from SBC

Spacevars
0product
to a 4-digit extension number that was used in CAS signaling group numbers such as 120.

Caption
0Figure

Creating an

...

SfB to FXS

...

Span

 

...

Call Routing Table
  1.  Login to the SBC WebUI
    Spacevars
    0product
     WebUI and navigate to Call Routing Table.
  2. Create a table as shown belowCall  Routing Table that includes the Number/Name Translation Table created above.
Note

This Route Table entry will use the preceding transformation table entry and route this call to FXS Signaling group.

Caption
0Figure
1Creating an SFB to FXS Call Routing Table

Image Removed

...

Creating a Mediation Crypto Profile
  1.  Login to the SBC WebUI the 
    Spacevars
    0product
     WebUI and navigate to Media > Media Crypto Profiles.
  2. Create a Mediation Crypto profile as shown below.
Caption
0Figure
1Creating a Media Crypto Profile

Image Removed

...

  1. Crypto Profiles.
  2. Create a Mediation Crypto profile. For details, refer to Managing SDES-SRTP Profiles.
Creating a Mediation List
  1.  Login to the SBC WebUI
    Spacevars
    0product
     WebUI and navigate to Media > Media List.
  2. Create a Mediation List as shown below. Make sure Ensure to apply the Crypto Profile because it is needed by SFB calls.
Caption
0Figure
1Creating a Mediation List

Image Removed

Span

 

...

  1. is needed by SFB calls.
Creating a SIP Signaling Profile
  1. Login to the SBC WebUI the 
    Spacevars
    0product
     WebUI and navigate to SIP > SIP Profiles.
  2. Create a SIP Profile as shown below.
Caption
0Figure
1Creating a SIP Signaling Profile

Image Removed

 

Span
 

...

  1. . For details, refer to Creating and Modifying SIP Profiles.
 Creating a SIP Server Table
  1.  Login to the SBC WebUI the 
    Spacevars
    0product
     WebUI and navigate to SIP > SIP Server Tables. Refer to Creating and Modifying Entries in SIP Server Tables.
  2. Create a SIP Server Table as shown below.
1
Note

The earlier Contact Registrant Table is applied to the Server Table. This will allow CRT entries to register with Skype For Business.

Caption
0Figure

Creating a SIP

...

Image Removed

Span

 

...

Signaling Group

...

  1. Apply the previously created SIP Profile, Media List, Call Routing Table, and SIP Server Table entries to this Signaling Group. In addition, set the inter-op mode as Office 365, and ensure that the Office 365 FQDN matches the dns suffix

...

Caption
0Figure
1Creating a SIP Signaling Group

Image Removed

...

  1. used in SfB user's profile.

o365 with AD
Anchor
o365 with AD
o365 with AD

Note

This section assumes that projected OnPrem users are SBC

Spacevars
0product
's FXS endpoints and the goal is associate them with Active Directory users and to register them with Skype For Business via SBCfor Business through the
Spacevars
0product
.

Creating a CAS FXS Profile
  1. Login to the SBC WebUI the 
    Spacevars
    0product
     WebUI and navigate to CAS >CAS Signaling Profiles.
  2. Create an FXS profile as shown below.
Caption
0Figure
1Creating a CAS FXS Profile

Image Removed

...

  1. . Refer to Creating and Modifying CAS Signaling Groups.
Creating an FXS to

...

SfB Transformation Table
  1. Login to the SBC the 
    Spacevars
    0product
    C WebUI and navigate to Transformation.
  2. Create a Transformation Table with a desired number transformation entry as shown below.

...

  1. . For example, a transformation table entry

...

  1. can translate 11 digit 15101221201 called number from FXS endpoints to +15101221201

...

Caption
0Figure
1Creating an FXS to SFB Transformation Table

 Image Removed

...

  1. .
Creating an FXS to

...

SfB Call Routing Table
  1. Login to SBC WebUI to 
    Spacevars
    0product
     WebUI and navigate to Call Routing Table.
  2. Create a table as shown belowrouting table. Ensure the Number/Name Tranformation Table created in the earlier step is added.
1
Note

This Route Table entry will use the preceding transformation table entry and route this call to SIP Signaling group.

Caption
0Figure

Creating an FXS

...

Signaling Group
  1. Login to the 
    Spacevars
    0product
     WebUI

...

Image Removed

Span

 

Creating an FXS Signaling Group
  1. Login to the SBC WebUI and navigate to Signaling Groups.
  2. Create a CAS FXS Signaling Group by applying the above call route and FXS profile as shown below.
1
Note

In this For example, in the Signaling Group, 4 digit numbers are can be defined in association with the OnPrem user's tel: URI numbers. For the simplicity, 4 digit extensions of the tel: URI is used such as, 1201 for tel:+15101221201.

Caption
0Figure

Creating an

...

...

Spacevars

...

0

...

 

...

product
 to FXS Transformation Table
  1.  Login to the SBC WebUI the 
    Spacevars
    0product
     WebUI and navigate to Transformation.
  2. Create a Transformation Table with a desired number transformation entry as shown below.

...

  1. . For example, this transformation table entry

...

  1. can translate tel: URI number +15101221201 called number from

...

  1. the
    Spacevars
    0product
    to a 4-digit extension number that was used in CAS signaling group numbers such as 1201.

...

Creating an

...

SfB to FXS

...

Image Removed

Span

 

...

Call Routing Table
  1.  Login to the SBC WebUI the 
    Spacevars
    0product
     WebUI and navigate to Call Routing Table.
  2. Create a call routing table as shown below. Ensure the Number/Name Translation Table created previously is selected.
Note

This Routing Table entry will use the preceding transformation table entry and route this call to FXS Signaling group.

Caption
0Figure
1Creating an SFB to FXS Call Routing Table

Image Removed

...

Creating a Mediation Crypto Profile
  1.  Login to the SBC WebUI the 
    Spacevars
    0product
     WebUI and navigate to Media > Media Crypto Profiles.
  2. Create a Mediation Crypto Profile as shown below:

 

Caption
0Figure
1OnPrem: Mediation Crypto

Image Removed

...

  1. .
 

...

Creating a Mediation List
  1.  Login to the SBC WebUI the 
    Spacevars
    0product
     WebUI and navigate to Media > Media List.
  2. Create a Mediation List as shown below. Make sure to apply the Crypto Profile because it is needed by SFB SfB calls.

...

Creating a

...

Image Removed

Span

 

...

SIP Signaling Profile
  1.  Login to the SBC WebUI the 
    Spacevars
    0product
     WebUI and navigate to SIP > SIP Profiles.
  2. Create a SIP Profile as shown below.
Caption
0Figure
1Creating a SIP Signaling Profile

Image Removed

...

  1. . Refer to Creating and Modifying SIP Profiles.
Creating a SIP Server Table
  1. Login to the SBC WebUI the 
    Spacevars
    0product
     WebUI and navigate to SIP > SIP Server Tables.
  2. Create a SIP Server Table as shown below. Refer to Creating and Modifying Entries in SIP Server Tables.
Note

The existing Contact Registrant Table is applied to the Server Table. This will allow CRT entries to register with Skype For Business.

Caption
0Figure
1Creating a SIP Server Table

Image Removed

Span

 

...

for Business.

Domain Controller and Active Directory

 If inter-op Mode is planned to be used as o365 w/AD PBX, the following configuration pieces must be completed:

  1. Domain Controller with relevant search scope for the OnPrem Users.
  2. Active Directory Configuration with relevant user attributes.

 

Caption
0Figure
1Domain Controller and Active Directory

Image Removed

...

Note

Two types of domain controllers are required: Call Route and On Premises.

  • Call Route. Supplies call routing information.
  • On Premises. Notifies AD that it will be looking up On Premise; this enables the user to enter data to narrow the search scope, and allows the proper user records to be retrieved quickly from the AD server.

 

In this case, we use the pager attribute is used  to query and to register the user with it. Make sure to have Ensure the AD user created with the pager attribute as shown below:

Panel
borderStylenone
Caption
0Figure
1Pager Attribute set

Image Modified

Span 

Pagebreak

Creating a SIP Signaling Group

...

Note that previously created SIP Profile, Media List, Call Routing Table, and the SIP Server Table entries are applied to this Signaling Group. In addition, the inter-op mode is set as Office 365 w/AD PBX, AD Attribute as pager, and the Office 365 FQDN is matching with the dns suffix that is used in SFB user's

...

Caption
0Figure
1Creating a SIP Signaling Group

Image Removed

Span profile.

o365 with CRT and AD
Anchor
o365 with CRT and AD
o365 with CRT and AD

Note

This section assumes that candidate OnPrem users are SBCthe

Spacevars
0product
's FXS endpoints. The goal is to associate some of them with SBCthe
Spacevars
0product
's Contact Registrant Table, others with the Active Directory users, and then register them with Skype For for Business via SBC
Spacevars
0product
.

Creating Contact Registrant Table Entries

Create entries for OnPrem users (in this example they are associated with FXS endpoints) that must match with the Skype For for Business users' SIP and tel: URI values.

  1.  Login to the SBC WebUI the 
    Spacevars
    0product
     WebUI and navigate to SIP > Contact Registrant Table.
  2. Create a new table.
  3. Create the relevant Contact Registrant Table Entries as shown below; make sure that highlighted values are accordingly entered with . Ensure the Address of Record URI and SIP Contacts match the SIP and tel: URI values in SFB database.

 

Caption
0Figure
1Creating Contact Registrant Table Entries

Image Removed

Span

 

Creating a CAS FXS Profile
  1.  Login to the 
    Spacevars
    0product
     WebUI
Note

The sequence and user name, number, and URI association should be similar to the following:

Image Removed

Span

 

Creating a CAS FXS Profile
  1.  Login to the SBC WebUI and navigate to CAS >CAS Signaling Profiles.
  2. Create an FXS profile as shown below.

 

Caption
0Figure
1Creating a CAS FXS Profile

Image Removed

 

Span

 

  1. . Refer to Creating and Modifying CAS Signaling Groups.
Creating an FXS to

...

SfB Transformation

...

Table 
  1. Login to the SBC WebUI the 
    Spacevars
    0product
     WebUI and navigate to Transformation.
  2. Create a Transformation Table with a desired number transformation entry as shown below.

 

Note

This For example, the transformation table entry will can translate an 11 digit 15101221201 called number from FXS endpoints to +15101221201.

 

1
Caption
0Figure

Creating an FXS to

...

SfB Call Routing Table

...

  1. Login to 

    ...

    Spacevars

...

  1. 0

...

 

...

  1. product
     WebUI and navigate to Call Routing Table

...

  1. .
  2. Create a Call Routing Table. Refer to Creating and Modifying Entries Login to SBC WebUI and navigate to Call Routing Table.Create a table as shown belowTables.

 

Note

This Route Table entry will use the preceding transformation table entry and route this call to SIP Signaling group.

 

...

Creating an FXS

...

Signaling Group
  1. Login to the 
    Spacevars
    0product
     WebUI

...

Image Removed

 

Span

 

Creating an FXS Signaling Group
  1. Login to the SBC WebUI and navigate to Signaling Groups.
  2. Create a CAS FXS Signaling Group by applying the above call route and FXS profile as shown below.
Figure
Note

In For example, in this Signaling Group, 4 digit numbers are can be defined in association with the OnPrem user's tel: URI numbers. For the simplicity, 4 digit extensions of the tel: URI is used such as, 1201 for tel:+15101221201.

Caption
0

1
Creating an

...

...

Spacevars

...

0

...

 

...

product
 to FXS Transformation Table
  1.  Login to the SBC WebUI the 
    Spacevars
    0product
     WebUI and navigate to Transformation.
  2. Create a Transformation Table with a desired number transformation entry as shown below.
Note

This For example, this transformation table entry will translate cantranslate tel: URI number +15101221201 called number from SBC to 4 the

Spacevars
0product
to a 4-digit extension number that was used in CAS signaling group numbers such as 1201.

Caption
0Figure
1Creating an SBC to FXS Transformation Table

Image Removed

...

signaling group numbers such as 1201.

Creating an

...

SfB to FXS Call Routing Table
  1.  Login to the SBC WebUI the 
    Spacevars
    0product
     WebUI and navigate to Call Routing Table.
  2. Create a call routing table as shown below.
Note

This Routing Table entry will use the preceding transformation table entry and route this call to FXS Signaling group.

Caption
0Figure
1Creating an SFB to FXS Call Routing Table

Image Removed

Span

 

Creating a Mediation Crypto Profile
Creating a Mediation Crypto Profile
  1. Login to the 
    Spacevars
    0product
     WebUI  Login to the SBC WebUI and navigate to Media > Media Crypto Profiles.
  2. Create a Mediation Crypto Profile as shown below:
Caption
0Figure
1OnPrem: Mediation Crypto

Image Removed

Span

 

  1. . For details, refer to Creating and Modifying SDES-SRTP Profiles.
Creating a Mediation List
  1.  Login to the SBC WebUI the 
    Spacevars
    0product
     WebUI and navigate to Media > Media List.
  2. Create a Mediation List as shown belowList. Make sure to apply the Crypto Profile because it is needed by SFB SfB calls.
Caption
0Figure
1Creating a Mediation List

Image Removed

...

Creating a SIP Signaling Profile
  1.  Login to the SBC WebUI the 
    Spacevars
    0product
     WebUI and navigate to SIP > SIP Profiles.
  2. Create a SIP Profile as shown below.

...

Creating a SIP

...

Image Removed

Server Table
  1. Login to the 
    Spacevars
    0product
     WebUI
Span

 

Creating a SIP Server Table
  1. Login to the SBC WebUI and navigate to SIP > SIP Server Tables.
  2. Create a SIP Server Table as shown below.
Note

The existing Contact Registrant Table is applied to the Server Table. This will allow CRT entries to register with Skype For for Business.

Caption
0Figure
1Creating a SIP Server Table

Image Removed

Span

 

...

Domain Controller and AD

If inter-op Mode will be used as o365 with AD PBX, the following configuration steps must be completed.

  1. Domain Controller with relevant search scope for the OnPrem users.
  2. Active Directory Configuration with relevant user attributes.
Caption
0Figure
1Search Scope and Relevant AD Attributes

Image Removed

...

  1. the OnPrem users.
  2. Active Directory Configuration with relevant user attributes.

In this case, the pager attribute is used to query and register the user. Make sure to have the AD user created with the pager attribute as shown below:

Panel
borderStylenone
Caption
0Figure
1Pager Attribute
 Image Modified

...

 

...

Configuring a SIP Signaling Group
Note

Note that previously created SIP Profile, Media List, Call Routing Table, and the SIP Server Table entries are applied to this Signaling Group. In addition, the inter-op mode is set as Office 365 w/AD PBX, AD Attribute as pager, and the Office 365 FQDN is matching with the dns suffix that is used in SFB SfB user's profile.

 

Signaling Group is configured with interop mode as Office 365 w/AD PBX and AD attribute as pager (for this exercise).

...

...

0Figure
1Creating a SIP Signaling Group

...

Image Removed

Span

 

Enabling ICE Support for MS

...

SfB EDGE Server Integration

If the Skype For for Business Front End Pool is integrated with an EDGE Server, SBC must an EDGE Server, the 

Spacevars
0product
 must be configured with the following settings to support calls to/from SFB SfB clients behind the EDGE Server:

  1. Remote Authorization Table Entry with the Realm of SFBSfB's domain suffix, a valid domain user, and its credentials as shown below.
  2. SIP Server Table with the FQDN of the EDGE Server, Port 5062, protocol as TLS, the TLS profile that is used for SFB SfB Front End Pool integration, and the Remote Authorization Table entry that is created in the previous step as shown below.
  3. Node Level SIP Settings that is configured with the EDGE SIP Server table (from the previous step) as EDGE Server Destination settings as shown below.
  4. Front End Pool SIP Signaling Group configured with ICE Support settings as enabled as shown below:

 

...

  1. .

 

...

 

Image Removed

 Image Removed

Image Removed

Span

 

Pagebreak