[cisco-voip] Connection User Migration Strategy

[Lelio Fulgenzi]

First things first, make sure you use 7.1(2)ES3 (recently posted). We imported users into 7.0(2) base and got caught with a bug when a user changed their password via TUI or an administrator changed a password via SA the user could no longer log in with either password (old or new). 

Next, configure your connection boxes with AD synchronization, test that all out, i.e. do an import and see the user can log in to the user pages with their AD password. Once you have that all sorted out, perform the export and import as per the documentation. You will be importing users as local users. There is no way around this. Next step is to associate a local user to a CCMLDAPuser using the bulk administration tool in the SA. 

Tools > Bulk Admin > (.) Update (.) Users with mail box 

Your source file will look like this: 

alias,LdapCcmUserId 
<local alias>, <AD alias> 

for the most part, they'll probably be the same, but you'll have to sort that out. 

NB: Read the AD Sync information carefully to understand how changing an AD parameter will affect the Connection parameter. Also, you can not "de-associate" a user once you have associated them to an LDAP/AD alias. You will have to delete them then recreate. You can use COBRA to export them first and restore them after if required. 

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----- Original Message ----- 
From: "STEVEN CASPER" <SCASPER at mtb.com> 
To: cisco-voip at puck.nether.net 
Sent: Friday, July 10, 2009 2:42:37 PM GMT -05:00 US/Canada Eastern 
Subject: [cisco-voip] Connection User Migration Strategy 


I am planning on migrating about 6500 Unity 4.05 users from 3 Unity systems to 2 Connection Clusters. Looks like the COBRA tool is the way to go here but I have been handled a complication. 

We now would now like to integrate Connection to AD for our user data base and authentication. Is there a way to export the Unity users and their associated greetings, attributes and messages and somehow map them into Connection and convert them to use the LDAP database? Not sure how to proceed with that part. The alias in Unity will not match the LDAP user name. 

Steve 


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