[cisco-voip] Is this Unity's death knell?

[Scott Voll]

yes.  it does ring your phone if desired.  I do have to admit, for once M$
has done a pretty good job at a first run application.  it will also play
your email, and calandar with out any extra licenses....... Cisco, are you
paying attention?

Scott


On 8/27/07, Steve G <smgustafson at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> With Exchange 2007, does it allow you to listen to your VM through the
> phone?  Like with Unity ViewMail you can click play and it will ring your
> extension which will then play your message to you after you pick-up.
>
> On 8/27/07, Jonathan Charles <jonvoip at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > I am sure someone will come out with a freeware app that does MWI...
> >
> > However, it probably won't be able to tag just voicemails and will
> > light MWI on all inbox items.
> >
> > The reality is that, in a unified messaging environment, most people
> > don't use their phones to retrieve vmail anyway.
> >
> > I think a business argument could almost be made to forgo MWI and
> > issue everyone speakers for their PCs.
> >
> >
> >
> > J
> >
> > On 8/27/07, Jeffrey C. Ollie <jeff at ocjtech.us> wrote:
> > > On Sun, 2007-08-26 at 23:17 -0500, Jonathan Charles wrote:
> > > >
> > http://www.microsoft.com/exchange/evaluation/features/unifiedmessaging.mspx
> > > >
> > > > Speech-Enabled Auto Attendant
> > > >
> > > > The Attendant answers calls using an automated operator with
> > > > customizable menus (for example, "press 1 for sales") and global
> > > > address list directory lookups (for example, "who would you like to
> > > > contact?"). Callers can interact with the Automated Attendant
> > through
> > > > touchtone menus or their voice using speech recognition.
> > > >
> > > > I think the integrated speed recognition is pretty cool, and as soon
> >
> > > > as you play with Outlook Voice Access, Unity looks kind of sad in
> > > > comparison...
> > >
> > > The "cool" features may be nice to give to your "C" level users, but
> > the
> > > killer for me would be letting the in-house Exchange admins handle the
> >
> > > voicemail/auto-attendants on their (existing) highly-available
> > Exchange
> > > clusters, rather than depending on my single Unity server.  That way I
> > > can also stop being an Exchange administrator myself (which I have
> > > neither the training or temperament for).
> > >
> > > One thing I noticed from [1]:
> > >         Exchange 2007 Unified Messaging has been tested for use with
> > >         Cisco Call Manager version 5.x. If you have Cisco Call Manager
> >
> > >         5.x on your network, you will be able to connect Exchange 2007
> > >         Unified Messaging servers directly to Call Manager without the
> > >         requirement of an IP/VoIP gateway. Many of the features that
> > are
> > >         included with Exchange 2007 Unified Messaging are fully
> > >         functional with Cisco Call Manager 5.x. However, the Message
> > >         Waiting Indicator (MWI) feature does not work and faxing does
> > >         not work because the T.38 faxing protocol is not supported by
> > >         Cisco Call Manager.
> > >
> > > T.38 faxing I think I could do without, but I think I'd be in danger
> > of
> > > losing my job if MWI stopped working.  However, according to the
> > > document that you can download from [2] there's a third-party
> > > solution[3] that enables MWI.
> > >
> > > [1]
> > http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/2516dac1-dfdc-47eb-8e6f-18b1537a57b2.aspx
> > > [2]
> > http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyId=68b43d3c-7c84-4c2f-bfd7-98754970d70e&displaylang=en
> > > [3] http://www.mwi2007.com/
> > >
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