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Yealink Skype for Business HD IP Phones Administrator Guide
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 Configuring a Provisioning Server
 Deploying Phones from the Provisioning Server
Why Using a Provisioning Server?
You can use a provisioning server to configure your phones. A provisioning server allows for
flexibility in upgrading, maintaining and configuring the phone. Configuration files and resource
files are normally located on this server.
When phones are triggered to perform auto provisioning, it will request to download the
configuration files from the provisioning server. During the auto provisioning process, the
phone will download and update configuration files to the phone flash. For more information on
auto provisioning, refer to Yealink_Skype_for_Business_HD_IP_Phones_Auto_Provisioning_Guide .
Supported Provisioning Protocols
Phones perform the auto provisioning function of uploading log files (if configured), uploading
contact files (if configured), downloading boot files, downloading configuration files,
downloading resource files and upgrading firmware. The transfer protocol is used to download
files from the provisioning server. Phones support several transport protocols for provisioning,
including FTP, TFTP, HTTP, and HTTPS protocols. And you can specify the transport protocol in
the provisioning server address, for example, http://xxxxxxx. If not specified, the TFTP protocol is
used. The provisioning server address can be IP address, domain name or URL. If a user name
and password are specified as part of the provisioning server address, for example,
http://user:pwd@server/dir, they will be used only if the server supports them.
Note
Configuring a Provisioning Server
The provisioning server can be set up on the local LAN or anywhere on the Internet. Use the
following procedure as a recommendation if this is your first provisioning server setup. For more
information on how to set up a provisioning server, refer to
Yealink_Skype_for_Business_HD_IP_Phones_Auto_Provisioning_Guide .
To set up the provisioning server:
1. Install a provisioning server application or locate a suitable existing server.
2. Create an account and home directory.
3. Set security permissions for the account.
A URL should contain forward slashes instead of back slashes and should not contain spaces.
Escape characters are not supported.
If a user name and password are not specified as part of the provisioning server address, the User
Name and Password of the provisioning server configured on the phone will be used.
There are two types of FTP methods—active and passive. Phones are not compatible with active
FTP.