[cisco-voip] Question regarding AD integration and corporatedirectories...

[Mike Lay (milay)]

"It makes every AD user show up in the standard "Corporate Directory".
Unless you change the description of the user to CiscoPrivateUser, but
some sites actually use the description field for something useful."

This can be managed by where your search base is pointed. To be more
specific point the search base to an OU that has only the users you want
to see. If you have all of your users in a single OU then there is not
much you can do other than change the description as you have mentioned.

Mike 

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[mailto:cisco-voip-bounces at puck.nether.net] On Behalf Of Patrick Mowry
Sent: Friday, September 15, 2006 2:14 PM
To: cisco-voip at puck.nether.net
Subject: Re: [cisco-voip] Question regarding AD integration and
corporatedirectories...

Hello,
  To be blunt, I hate AD integration with a passion.  It makes every AD
user show up in the standard "Corporate Directory".  Unless you change
the description of the user to CiscoPrivateUser, but some sites actually
use the description field for something useful.  It expects the phone
attribute to be the users extension when most sites I've been to has the
full e164 number in this field to sync to their PDA.  When AD has a
hiccup your call center users can't login.  IF you talk about AD
integration, some admins expect this to mean administering CallManager
users and phones from within Microsofts administration tools.

  I much prefer to keep DCDirectory in place and have a script update
whatever field in AD I want with the phone number assignments as so on.
 
I just feel it is more trouble than it's worth for just remembering 1
password. Except for call centers, how many users login to callmanager
anyway.

-Patrick
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Date: Fri, 15 Sep 2006 12:54:32 -0400
From: "Tim Reimers" <tim.reimers at asheville.k12.nc.us>
Subject: [cisco-voip] Question regarding AD integration and corporate
	directories...
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Regarding the plugin for AD for the CCMs- mentioned here:
http://www.cisco.com/en/US/products/sw/voicesw/ps556/products_tech_note0
9186a0080094493.shtml

What does this accomplish for CCM users?

Is it a 'free' option for a 4.01 non-Unifed Messaging environment?

I'm trying to figure out if I should ask my vendor to install this as an
OEM standard option, and what effect it may have on my existing users on
CCM and users on Unity and the Corporate Directory that now exists.

I don't quite understand the difference between having this plugin
installed and the AD changes made, versus using the internal CCM users?

I can only find Cisco's brief discussions, that don't really give a
'features' list of what extra capabilities you have with this installed,
that you don't have without it...

Tim


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