[cisco-voip] Voice Mail only Boxes

[Ryan Ratliff]

With VM only the accounts don't have to be local.   If they are local  
it just means that the Unity server is the only DC and only Exchange  
server in the domain.  For VMO with failover you still have to have  
an off-box AD DC/GC and Exchange server.

Some people even do VM only with their existing AD/Exchange  
infrastructure by giving users 2 AD accounts, one for email and one  
for vm.

Bottom line is for any subscriber you want to have access via the TUI  
there has to be a mailbox and thus a user account, end of story.

-Ryan

On Jan 31, 2006, at 11:57 AM, Ortiz, Carlos wrote:

Yes, but with a VM only system the accounts are local to the Unity Box
correct?  I am basically wondering if there is a way to exploit that to
serve this purpose. I understand that the VM only requires a different
local setup, but it would be nice if this would be addressed because
quite frankly UM is not needed for every VM box. If you could have a 100
of these "service" type mailboxes it would be nice.  It wasn't a big
deal at first, but we probably have about 12-15 of these accounts now.
We are currently about 15-20% IPT so I see this number rising as IPT
expansion continues....

Carlos

-----Original Message-----
From: Ryan Ratliff [mailto:rratliff at cisco.com]
Sent: Tuesday, January 31, 2006 11:49 AM
To: Ortiz, Carlos
Cc: cisco-voip at puck.nether.net
Subject: Re: [cisco-voip] Voice Mail only Boxes

Remember even with a non UM system you still have an AD Account and
mailbox for each subscriber.  The only real difference between
voicemail only and UM is whether the user gets email in the same
mailbox that they get voicemail.

Unity does have a thing called internet subscriber.   This is
basically an email address that Unity will forward all voicemails
to.  An internet subscriber cannot listen to VMs via the TUI (afaik)
and do not count against the subscriber license count.

-Ryan

On Jan 31, 2006, at 11:12 AM, Ortiz, Carlos wrote:

We have a Unity 4.05 Unified Messaging system.  I frequently have the
need to create Voice Mail only boxes (After hours, Crisis, etc).   Is
there anyway to do this without create an AD/Exchange user?



Carlos

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