[Asterisk-Users] Voicemail and MS Exchange Synchronization

[Rusty Shackleford]

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> [mailto:asterisk-users-bounces at lists.digium.com] On Behalf Of 
> George Pajari
> Sent: Thursday, June 09, 2005 10:19 AM
> To: Asterisk Users Mailing List - Non-Commercial Discussion
> Subject: [Asterisk-Users] Voicemail and MS Exchange Synchronization
> 
> 
> We have a customer considering migrating from a large Nortel 
> PBX with a 
> third-party voicemail system to Asterisk but one of the features they 
> really like is the automatic synchronization of voicemail between 
> Exchange and their voicemail system -- delete a message from the 
> voicemail system and it is deleted from their email inbox and 
> vice versa.
> 
> Searching has not revealed anything like this being developed for 
> Asterisk and yet it would appear to be a critical component needed to 
> migrate customers used to fully integrated "Unified 
> Messaging" systems 
> to Asterisk.
> 
> (a) Has anyone cracked this nut (or started on it)?
> 
> (b) Anyone interested if we post a bounty?

Good luck!

Back in the day, when we were on an Altigen system, we were using this
feature. It NEVER worked right. To be fair, it was not a feature that
had been extensively tested. Altigen's beta program appeared to made up
of paying customers. :( 
>From what I recall of the sessions with their engineers trying to debug
things, Exchange Server's behavior in the areas critical to supporting
this feature were poorly documented and seemed to change from one
service pack to the next. 

Things may well have improved, with regards to Exchange Server. It's
been a few years. To be sure, this would be a killer feature in
marketing * to MS Exchange Server shops. But I think I'll go hit myself
with hammer for a while instead. :)

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