User Manual

Setting Up Your System

Central Provisioning

The following figure shows how the phone interoperates with provisioning server when you use

the centralized provisioning method:

Skype for Business phones can be centrally provisioned from a provisioning server using the

configuration files (<y0000000000xx>.cfg and <MAC>.cfg). You can use a text-based editing

application to edit configuration files, and then store configuration files to a provisioning server.

For more information on the provisioning server, refer to Setting Up a Provisioning Server on

page 97.

Skype for Business phones can obtain the provisioning server address during startup. Then

Skype for Business phones download configuration files from the provisioning server, resolve

and update the configurations written in configuration files. This entire process is called auto

provisioning. For more information on auto provisioning, refer to

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Manual Provisioning

There are two ways to manually provision phones:

 Web User Interface

 Phone User Interface

Web User Interface

You can configure phones via web user interface, a web-based interface that is especially useful

for remote configuration. Because features and configurations vary by phone model and

firmware version, options available on each page of the web user interface can vary.

An administrator or a user can configure phones via web user interface; but accessing the web

user interface requires password. The default user name and password for the administrator are