IP Phone Provisioning (Windows CE 5.0)
When applied to IP phones, provisioning is the act of providing settings used by the phones for making calls and performing other phone tasks.
For example, the IP phone you can build using the Windows CE 5.0 IP Phone design template can use a SIP server for call control, an Exchange server for contact and other personal information, and so on.
Provisioning a phone built using this functionality involves retrieving the settings that set the IP address or machine name of the SIP server, the URL for the Exchange server, and so on.
Note The way that the VAIL handles initialization and provisioning in Windows CE 5.0 has changed significantly from how it was handled in Windows CE .NET 4.2. For more information about migrating provisioning from a Windows CE .NET 4.2 IP phone, see Migrating to New Initialization and Provisioning APIs.
Application code, like the Telephony User Interface (TUI), provisions a phone in two steps:
Retrieves provisioning information.
For more information about this step, see Retrieving Provisioning Information.
Uses the information retrieved in step one to actually provision the phone.
For more information about this step, see Using Provisioning Information in VAIL.
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