Domain – The benefit of different SIP and SMTP domains

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I was wondering if there was an advantage of having a different Lync SIP domain name from the Exchange SMTP domain name?

I could see the disadvantages, but I'm trying to understand the real world situation that I have with my current deployment.

Example:

SIP: [user]@itaihay.com
SMTP:[user]@marketing.itaihay.com

Thank you for the help.

Best Answer

There is no real advantage to using separate (sub)domains for SIP vs e-mail...

Quite to the contrary, there is a big advantage to using the same domain, namely, each employee has a single address that can be used for either mode of contact.

person@example.com can be the employee's email address, voip contact, instant messenger contact, etc. Much simpler.