[cisco-voip] Unity 4

[Andrew Dignan]

Pretty sure that violates a Cisco/Microsoft licensing agreement..could be 
wrong but....

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Tim Medley" <medley at mac.com>
To: "'Tim Reimers'" <tim.reimers at asheville.k12.nc.us>; "'King, Jesse'" 
<JKing at thegranitegroup.com>
Cc: <cisco-voip at puck.nether.net>
Sent: Friday, February 11, 2005 8:51 PM
Subject: RE: [cisco-voip] Unity 4


> It is a real hard sell for Unified Messaging, most of the customer we have
> using are really only using the part where the voicemail message shows up 
> in
> their email in box.
>
> One solution, is to just use exchange to email the voice message to a 
> users
> email address somewhere. We do this frequently. You lose MWI integration
> between the outlook inbox and the voicemail box, but that's not a huge
> issue.
>
> Simply setup an smtp connector in exchange and then set a forward
> destination on the email account in AD.
>
> Best part is it's free!
>
> tm
>
>
>
> Tim Medley
>
> http://www.medleylabs.com
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: cisco-voip-bounces at puck.nether.net
> [mailto:cisco-voip-bounces at puck.nether.net] On Behalf Of Tim Reimers
> Sent: Friday, February 11, 2005 8:27 AM
> To: King, Jesse
> Cc: cisco-voip at puck.nether.net
> Subject: RE: [cisco-voip] Unity 4
>
>
> We do not have Unified Messaging installed either-
>
> We have discovered that it's reasonably stable to have users use the
> OutLook Web access to get their voicemail-
>
> Most of our admin staff uses desktop Outlook, so then they can just open
> up a browser session to
>
> http://unityserver/exchange/ and log in.
>
> Ours happens to be in a different AD domain, so their login looks like:
>
> \\UNITYDOMAIN\username.username
>
> Works great! no need to actually unify messaging-
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: cisco-voip-bounces at puck.nether.net
> [mailto:cisco-voip-bounces at puck.nether.net] On Behalf Of Voll, Scott
> Sent: Friday, February 11, 2005 11:07 AM
> To: King, Jesse
> Cc: cisco-voip at puck.nether.net
> Subject: RE: [cisco-voip] Unity 4
>
> And just remember all the $$$ you spend just to make new voicemail
> (email accounts). But I have been forced into this also.
>
> Scott
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: cisco-voip-bounces at puck.nether.net
> [mailto:cisco-voip-bounces at puck.nether.net] On Behalf Of Ryan Ratliff
> Sent: Thursday, February 10, 2005 8:22 PM
> To: King, Jesse
> Cc: cisco-voip at puck.nether.net
> Subject: Re: [cisco-voip] Unity 4
>
> The only huge difference between UM and voicemail only is how users
> check their voicemail.  Because of system load we don't support having
> on-box Exchange with UM as it's just asking for trouble.  We also don't
> support running Exchange 2003 on-box period.
>
> If you've got Exchange 2003 already deployed then the best thing for
> you to do is to create a second AD account for folks who don't want or
> need UM.  Have this be their voicemail mailbox but leave it on whatever
> Exchange server you want.
>
> -Ryan
> On Feb 10, 2005, at 10:33 PM, King, Jesse wrote:
>
> I am currently on Unity 3.x, looking to upgrade to 4.04? shortly -
>
> A few questions -
>
> Currently only doing voicemail only - If we choose to use the unified
> benefits, is it possible to say User 1 only gets voicemail on the
> phone, not in the inbox? User 2 gets both, etc? The reason being is
> that some people would use this feature, but a majority of them just
> don't need it.
>
>
>
> Currently Exchange 5.5 is installed on the Unity box and is in a voice
> mail only mode - We have a separate exchange 2003 for email, is it
> going to be a nightmare to transition over to unified messaging during
> the 4.04 upgrade - I'm not even sure this is possible, need to do more
> reading....
>
> Thanks..
>
> Jesse
>
>
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