SCOPTEL 2.7 PHONE EXTENSION ACTIVE DIRECTORY SYNCHRONISATION

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1 SCOPTEL 2.7 PHONE EXTENSION ACTIVE DIRECTORY SYNCHRONISATION August 2013

2 PREAMBULE Following is the procedure to synchronize the Active Directory user s with ScopTel s phone extension database. We currently support the synchronization of the attributes below: - Phone extension - Full name - Username PROCEDURE Login to ScopTel

3 Go to menu Configuration / Telephony / Configuration Click on the Synchronization tab

4 Click on Add new sync source Select the tenant to be synchronized with

5 Follow these steps: 1. Select Phone Extensions 2. Type Active Directory 3. Click on the Source tab

6 Follow these steps: 1. Type the domain controller IP address 2. Type the Distinguished Name of your administrator account. Refer to appendix for more explanation 3. Type the account password. 4. Type the base Distinguished Name where to synchronize the user account. Refer to appendix for more explanation 5. Type (objectclass=user) in the Filter Prefix 6. Click the Attributes tab

7 Follow these steps: 1. Type ipphone in attribute name of Phone Extension 2. Type displayname in attribute name of Full Name 3. Type samaccountname in attribute name of Username 4. Click on Options tab

8 Follow these steps: 1. Check the Update existing Extensions? 2. Check the Executes a Commit if we detect changes? 3. Check the Enable Auto Synchronization and fill out the schedule of syncronization 4. Click on Save button Click on Commit button ScopTel is now ready to be synchronized with Active Directory following the schedule configured. Please refer to appendix section for proper user creation and configuration in Active Directory.

9 APPENDIX BASE DN The base DN is where the synchronization will start the search for user s object. In this case, we created a test Organization Unit to store a user object. Therefore the Base DN would be: OU=test,DC=SCOPSERV,DC=local ADMINISTRATOR ACCOUNT LOGIN DN The admin account is in the Users component under SCOPSERV.local, so my distinguished name would be: CN=admin,CN=Users,DC=SCOPSERV,DC=local In Active Directory, Users is not an Organization Unit, it s a common name and sometimes this can be confusing.

10 CONFIGURING USER EXTENSION Open up the Active Directory User s and Computer MMC snap-in. Create a user and edit the properties, go under Telephones tab. Simply type in the user Extension to be synchronized with ScopTel.