Today the topic is the way that PointBridge supports and encourages other users of Office Communication Server to communicate with us. We have turned on and support Open Federation. We have published the requisite DNS records and have the communication ports open to allow your OCS services to contact ours.
The required DNS records are as follows:
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TYPE
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Name
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Content
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SRV
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_sipfederationtls._tcp.<domain.com>
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0 0 5061 <public name of OCS pool>
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SRV
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_sip._tls.<domain.com>
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0 0 443 <public name of OCS pool>
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This means that any OCS user could open a new IM simply to my email address and the communication would go through. No need to contact me to setup a server side federation setting, no need to contact your network team to set things up. Just IM me. The communication supports the entier OCS stack.
the URLs come in the form of sip:user@domain.com and tel:user@domain.com.
Hope this helps and encourages more companies to support Open Federation. A good note for security conscious people, even though OCS supports Open Federation, the pool records the domains that are connected in this way, and can apply rules to block communication from those domains that are determined to be acting out of normal means will be automatically blocked.
Happy IMing and happy Federation.
