Skype for Business federation can be configured from Skype for Business Control Panel as well as from Skype for Business Management Shell. It is time to know “how does Skype for Business federation work?” Let’s take an example of two organizations deHOSTED.com and customer.de. Both organizations have open federation.   Below is the step by step procedure:
  1. UserA (sipuri:usera@deHOSTED.com) is looking for UserB (sipuri:userb@customer.de)
  2. First of all it will check the access edge configuration for federated domain.
  3. As UserA request for sipuri: userb@customer.de and in my case both domain is configured for open federation, the request will go to Access Edge Server and Access Edge Server will do lookup for domain name customer.de.
  4. If customer.de domain exists then it will look for the SRV record _sipfederationtls._tcp.customer.de.
  5. Once it will get the destination address of customer.de access edge server then it will try to establish the SIP/MTLS:5061 connection.
  6. Once customer.de will receive the request from deHOSTED.com, customer.de will check the access edge configuration to verify allow/block federated domains.
  7. Once the connection will be establish between both Skype for Business Front End Pools / Skype for Business Standard Edition Servers via Access Edge Server, UserA and UserB will talk to each other.
  Note:
  1. All the required ports should be open in both ends.
  2. SRV record entry should exist in External Certificate.
  3. Federated domain should be allowed in both ends.
  4. XMPP doesn’t use SIP/MTLS:5061. It use XMPP/TCP:5269 to connect access edge server from public network and XMPP/MTLS:23456 to connect Front End Pool.
 
 
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