[Asterisk-Users] Voicemail and MS Exchange Synchronization

[Tim Litwiller]

Kris Boutilier wrote:
>>-----Original Message-----
>>From: asterisk-users-bounces at lists.digium.com
>>[mailto:asterisk-users-bounces at lists.digium.com]On Behalf Of Tim
>>Litwiller
>>Sent: Thursday, June 09, 2005 9:16 PM
>>To: Asterisk Users Mailing List - Non-Commercial Discussion
>>Subject: Re: [Asterisk-Users] Voicemail and MS Exchange 
>>Synchronization
>>
>>
>>I'm not a programmer - but it sounds to me like you are all 
>>making it to hard by transfer the voice files around etc. unless you 
>>really have to have the messages stored in the mail server for some reason.
>>
>>here is what I would picture
>>a outlook plugin that creates the illusion of several folders
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> {clip}
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> This is good, but just the configuration management process quickly becomes unrealistic for 
a larger office deployment of, say, 250+ clients.

First time opening outlook after install it could pop up a dialog asking 
the user for thier phone extension.

but yes - I wasn't think of a very large organization when I thought of 
this - more like the 15 - 50 user size.


> Similarly, a larger organisaion running Exchange presumably has also architected their hardware for it and would get better value from consolidating storage in that hardware - consider someone running an Exchange Server cluster with a SAN behind it... 
> 
> Perhaps there really is a need for two tiers of solutions here - the large scale Mailserver-as-backend-for-Asterisk concept presented earlier today by Craig Guy and then a more generic Asterisk-as-backend-for-mail clients using IMAP, some other mail protocol or even a per-mail client custom plug-in as you've suggested.
> 
> Just my can$0.02
> 
> Kris Boutilier
> Information Services Coordinator
> Sunshine Coast Regional District
>