CUPS 8.6 Federation

[ciscoscott2012]

Hi,

I have recently setup a CUP cluster for 300 users using the internal domain name of our network (company.local)

I'm now looking at federation but I didnt realise that I would run into issues as the domain name needs to be externally routable.

We have a number of jabber client manually configured to use company.local as the  domain under the connection settings as we origianlly had issues with SRV.

Is it true that I will need to change the CUPs domain to be the same as my public (company.com) for federation to work? Will this cause any issues resolving local AD contacts as the internal and external domains are different?

Someone did mention that we can enable email address for federation. Will this work in my situation?                 

[fb_webuser]

Great Post!

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Posted by WebUser Jinal Jhaveri from Cisco Support Community App

[Christos Georgiadis]

Hi,

What you want to federate with ? Another cup server, lync server etc etc ?

If you want to federate with a system on another domain then you need to look at the following guide

Interdomain Federation

http://www.cisco.com/en/US/docs/voice_ip_comm/cups/8_6/english/integration_notes/Federation/Overview_chapter.html

HTH,
Christos

[ciscoscott2012]

Hi,

We are looking to federate with other companies that use Lync and CUPS.

I have looked at this guide but I'm not fully clear if we can federate using email address or not. Our users also use 5 different email addresses as well which adds complication. WIll this work or will I need to change my CUPS domain to match our public domain?

[Christos Georgiadis]

I believe that this should work provided the email address has a publicly known domain.

There is a relevant section in the guide where it discusses about that.

Now not sure what happens in the event of 5 different email addresses

Beware that the users on the other side will have to add contacts based on email addresses so having 5 different emails per user will not make it easy for them.

To be 100% you may want to open a TAC case to verify

Thanks,

Christos