Microsoft Devices Introduction

VOSS-4-UC can be used to manage multiple applications within Microsoft’s Unified Communications stack including Active Directory, Skype for Business Server, Exchange Server, Skype for Business Online, Exchange Online, and Office 365.

Windows PowerShell is utilized for this purpose. Because PowerShell is native to Microsoft Windows, VOSS-4-UC requires access to at least one Windows computer that will, in turn, execute remote PowerShell cmdlets on VOSS-4-UC’s behalf. In this document we will refer to these computers as “VOSS-4-UC PowerShell Proxies”, or simply “PS Proxies”. If you are using VOSS-4-UC to manage multiple customer domains, you need at least one PS Proxy for each customer domain under management.

VOSS-4-UC will create, via a PS Proxy, a separate PowerShell session for each of the Microsoft applications being managed for a specific customer domain. All of the PowerShell sessions for a particular customer domain may be hosted by the same PS Proxy, or you can configure a separate PS Proxy for each session. The PS Proxies hosting these PowerShell sessions may be dedicated for this purpose exclusively, but this is not required.

Refer to Appendix: Microsoft Configuration for the software and security requirements and configuration for each of the PowerShell sessions created by VOSS-4-UC.

Sign into VOSS-4-UC as an administrator at a hierarchy level at or above where you will be adding the Microsoft devices. You can add Microsoft devices at the customer level, the provider level, or at any intermediate node above customer. Open the Device Management menu.