Custom Voicemail for Lync without Exchange UM

Hello Experts,
If customer is insisting not to use Exchange UM, is there a way to develop a voice mail solution making use of Lync API's?
I would like to know whether it is achievable.
Thanks a lot!
Nobin
Life is a Gift. To be a Gift

Possibly, but it wouldn't be a supported solution and it wouldn't work well. It would also be FAR FAR more expensive to develop than just using a single Exchange server for voicemail only and a seperate mail platform for email.  I actually have this
in production at a client, they're still using GroupWise for their email, but have Exchange for Lync voicemail only at the moment.  The GroupWise migration is planned for later this summer, but they needed the phone system replacement immediately.
In everyone's call forwarding settings you can tell a call where to go after a set number of rings, and you could tell it to call a custom platform or number, but it's too easily reset by the user to be an effective solution.
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