SCOPTEL 2.7
PHONE EXTENSION
ACTIVE DIRECTORY SYNCHRONISATION

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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

Go to menu “Configuration / Telephony / Configuration”

Click on the “Synchronization” tab

Click on “Add new sync source”

Select the tenant to be synchronized with

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

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

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

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.

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.

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.