A little background... I have a Mitel 5000 CP with about 90 extensions. We have a block of 200 DID numbers, most of which go to an extension. I'm trying really hard to conenct my phone system up to a Microsoft Lync server. Offcially, this is not possible. I didn't like that answer
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I purchased a couple of SIP trunk licenses and installed AsteriskNOW. I got everything working where I can load a softphone connected to Asterisk and call an internal extension. From my desk phone, I can also dial '8' then dial an Asterisk extension.
On the Lync side, I set up another SIP trunk which allows me to dial an Enterprise voice enabled test user from my Asterisk softphone. I'm also able to dial the Asterisk softphone from my Lync client.
I modfied my dial rule a little bit and am even able to dial '8' then the Lync user extension from my desk phone and establish a call. And vice versa: I can dial my phone extension from Lync and it rings my desk phone.
So far so good... but the next steps are where I seem to be having a problem.
I'd like to have it so when a specific DID is called, it sends the call directly to the SIP trunk and dials the Lync conference extension. At this point in time, I can't even get it to send the call to the SIP trunk. The call routing table will accept the PRI trunk as the destination, but not the SIP trunk... of course, even this wouldn't be ideal as the remote user would still have to dial the conference attendant's ext.
On the flip side, I'm also not able to call the outside world from the other side of my SIP trunk (my Asterisk softphone).
Any/all help with either one of these issues would be most appreciated. I feel like I'm so close, yet so far away!