How to use StarLeaf with Skype for Business Server 2015
Last updated October 20, 2021 Microsoft Skype for Business
This article describes how to integrate StarLeaf with a Microsoft Skype for Business 2015 Server deployment.
Pre-requisites
To be able to call outside of your Skype for Business deployment, the Skype for Business server requires certain ports to be open on the firewall. Your Edge Server needs to conform to the requirements in Microsoft’s Port summary for the Edge Server .
Step One: Federate between the Skype for Business Server and StarLeaf
If your Skype for Business deployment is configured as open federation, skip this step and go directly to Step two: Configure your firewall.
If your Skype for Business deployment is not configured as open federation, you need to add your organization’s call.sl subdomain (<your organization name>.call.sl ) among your list of federated partners. You also need to add the call.sl domain for any other StarLeaf organization that you want to communicate with. This is described here:
- Log in to the Skype for Business Front End or Standard Edition Server and open the Skype for Business Control Panel.
- Go to Federated User Access is checked. If not, enable it by clicking on and check Enable Communications with Federated users.
- To enable federation at a system level, select Access Edge Configuration from the top navigation.
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Under Edit Access Edge Configuration: Select
Enable federation.
- To add the StarLeaf Skype for Business domain, go to SIP Federated Domains from top navigation.
- Now add a new domain pointing to <organization name>.call.sl and edge server pointing to <organization name>.call.sl.
Step two: Configure your firewall
For each StarLeaf domain you wish to call, ensure your firewall allows traffic to/from the organization’s <organization name>.call.sl domain in the following tables. This assumes you have a deployment where the ports 50,000 – 59,999 are used for media. If your firewall requires you to use IP addresses rather than DNS names, contact StarLeaf Support for the IP addresses. These port requirements are for connections, not for packet data.
Inbound port requirements
Type | StarLeaf side (source) | Edge server (destination) | Reason |
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TCP | Ephemeral (1024-65535) | 5061 | Call signaling |
Outbound port requirements
Type | Edge server (source) | StarLeaf side (destination) | Reason |
---|---|---|---|
TCP | Ephemeral (1024-65535) | 5061 | Call signaling |
UDP* | 50000-59999 | 50000-59999 | Audio/video media |
TCP | 50000-59999 | 50000-59999 | Audio/video and screen-share media |
*Recommended for best user experience, but not strictly necessary.
Step three: Update SRV record
Ensure you have an up-to-date federation SRV record for your Skype for Business domain (Skype for Business server domain). For example, where a domain is example.com, the SRV record would be:
_sipfederationtls._tcp.example.com