Applies to: Exchange Server 2010 SP3, Exchange Server 2010 SP2

Topic Last Modified: 2012-07-23

You can enable or disable inbound faxes for users associated with a Unified Messaging (UM) mailbox policy. By default, when you enable users for Unified Messaging, this option is selected but users can't receive fax messages until you specify the URI for the fax partner server and deploy a fax partner server for your organization. If the Unified Messaging mailbox policy is associated with UM servers that use TCP and TLS, you'll need to enter URIs for both TCP and TLS. If the option to allow incoming faxes is disabled on the UM dial plan, UM-enabled users associated with the UM mailbox policy won't be able to receive faxes.

Looking for other management tasks related to UM mailbox policies? Check out Managing UM Mailbox Policies.

Prerequisites

Use the EMC to enable or disable inbound faxing

You need to be assigned permissions before you can perform this procedure. To see what permissions you need, see the "UM mailbox policies" entry in the Unified Messaging Permissions topic.

  1. In the console tree, navigate to Organization Configuration > Unified Messaging.

  2. In the work pane, on the UM Mailbox Policies tab, select the UM mailbox policy you want to manage, and then click Properties in the action pane.

  3. On the UM mailbox policy Properties page, on the General tab, select or clear the check box next to Allow inbound faxes.

  4. Click OK to save your changes.

Use the Shell to enable or disable inbound faxing

You need to be assigned permissions before you can perform this procedure. To see what permissions you need, see the "UM mailbox policies" entry in the Unified Messaging Permissions topic.

This example allows users who are associated with the UM mailbox policy MyUMMailboxPolicy to use inbound faxing.

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Set-UMMailboxPolicy -identity MyUMMailboxPolicy -AllowFax $true

For more information about syntax and parameters, see Set-UMMailboxPolicy.

Other Tasks

After you enable or disable inbound faxing on a UM mailbox policy, you may also want to View or Configure the Properties of a UM Mailbox Policy.