asterisk users - Jun 2009 - Asterisk - SIP - TCP and Exchange 2007 Unified Messaging

Hi all,
I was wondering what the current development plans / patches etc are to 
allow Asterisk to talk to Exchange 2007 Unified Messaging with respect 
to adding SIP over TCP support?

I've been googleing and looking through various posts on the wiki and 
all seem to suggest that it could be happening in later versions but all 
seem to be dated quite old now and nothing suggesting that its now done.


Thanks
Wayne.

On Wed, Jun 10, 2009 at 6:00 PM, Wayne<Wayne at planetwayne.com>
wrote:
> Hi all,
> I was wondering what the current development plans / patches etc are to
> allow Asterisk to talk to Exchange 2007 Unified Messaging with respect
> to adding SIP over TCP support?
I would ask the question the other way around. Are there any plans for
Microsoft to release a unified messaging product that will comply with
SIP over UDP?

I've been wondering whether people are going to trust Microsoft to
handle their phone calls. Do you really not want to be able to call
911 because you just got a blue screen of death? The claims I've seen
about why I want Microsoft to handle my phones is that I'll save a lot
of money by eliminating desk phones. Sounds like a scary, scary place
to work when something goes wrong with the Microsoft OS, but that
never happens, right?

On Wed, 2009-06-10 at 23:00 +0100, Wayne wrote:
> I was wondering what the current development plans / patches etc are to 
> allow Asterisk to talk to Exchange 2007 Unified Messaging with respect 
> to adding SIP over TCP support?
There is experimental support for SIP over TCP in Asterisk 1.6.0 and
later.  It's probably not perfect yet, but we'd be happy to hear how it
works for you, and that will help the Asterisk developers make it
better.

As far as other things related to the vague notion of "unified
communications", there's the code that Terry Wilson just added on being
able to read Exchange calendars (iCal/CalDAV are supported as well) from
the Asterisk dialplan, there's plenty of Jabber work being done on the
IM side, and Asterisk can already store voicemail in an IMAP mail
server.  (I've long since let go of my Windows skills, but I'm assuming
that modern versions of Exchange still let you communicate via IMAP,
right?)

In short, there are a lot of exciting things happening in the world of
Asterisk with regards to unified communications.

-- 
Jared Smith
Training Manager
Digium, Inc.