[cisco-voip] CM 8.6 to 9.1

Mon Jan 20 18:50:53 EST 2014

My biggest issue is the N-1 redundancy. I'm hoping that there will be enough of this, to allow me to upgrade ELM (or whatever it's going to be called) so I can upgrade one cluster from x to y and still use the same ELM host so I can share licenses. It's a really, really good idea, license pooling as they called it in Unity, to have. If they can add the router based voip licenses, that would be ideal. :) 

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Lelio Fulgenzi, B.A. 
Senior Analyst, Network Infrastructure 
Computing and Communications Services (CCS) 
University of Guelph 

519‐824‐4120 Ext 56354 
lelio at uoguelph.ca 
www.uoguelph.ca/ccs 
Room 037, Animal Science and Nutrition Building 
Guelph, Ontario, N1G 2W1 

----- Original Message -----

From: "Tim Smith" <tim.smith at enject.com.au> 
To: "Lelio Fulgenzi" <lelio at uoguelph.ca> 
Cc: cisco-voip at puck.nether.net, "Jeremy Bresley" <brez at brezworks.com> 
Sent: Monday, January 20, 2014 6:23:15 PM 
Subject: RE: [cisco-voip] CM 8.6 to 9.1 

Yep! In fairness though, I’ve done all my 9 installs as co-res anyway. It seemed to be a bit of a waste of resources to have it separate. 

Cheers, 

Tim. 

From: Lelio Fulgenzi [mailto:lelio at uoguelph.ca] 
Sent: Tuesday, 21 January 2014 10:21 AM 
To: Tim Smith 
Cc: cisco-voip at puck.nether.net; Jeremy Bresley 
Subject: Re: [cisco-voip] CM 8.6 to 9.1 

what? this is nuts. another name change after only one iteration, and now they're telling me i can't install it as a standalone box? ugh. 

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Lelio Fulgenzi, B.A. 
Senior Analyst, Network Infrastructure 
Computing and Communications Services (CCS) 
University of Guelph 

519 ‐ 824 ‐ 4120 Ext 56354 
lelio at uoguelph.ca 
www.uoguelph.ca/ccs 
Room 037, Animal Science and Nutrition Building 
Guelph, Ontario, N1G 2W1 

----- Original Message -----

From: "Tim Smith" < tim.smith at enject.com.au > 
To: "Lelio Fulgenzi" < lelio at uoguelph.ca >, "Jeremy Bresley" < brez at brezworks.com > 
Cc: cisco-voip at puck.nether.net 
Sent: Monday, January 20, 2014 6:05:05 PM 
Subject: RE: [cisco-voip] CM 8.6 to 9.1 
Hey guys, 

The release notes, whats new etc are posted on CCO now. 
It’s all here - http://www.cisco.com/en/US/docs/voice_ip_comm/cucm/docguide/10_0_1/CUCM_BK_C08E97F6_00_cucm-doc-guide-1001.html 

My favourites.. 
- CSS Inheritance for translation patterns – handy for tidying up the dial plan 
- Feature group template support for user synced from directory – automatically set some config to users as they are imported 
- Plug and play – auto config of auto reg phones (including IVR) 
- Universal line templates 

I love all the automatic provisioning stuff, I think this is where it is at. 
Self-care is alright, but I think the initial config should just be automatic 

On the .0 stuff.. 
Even minor changes make room for bugs and issues. I wouldn’t necessarily avoid the .0 release all together. But I’d give it a few SU’s. 
Although for BE6k, and small greenfield sites, I think some of the new features might make it worth the risk. 
I got caught out with two deferrals for CWMS 1.5 MR1 and MR2 recently. They were just maintenance releases. 

Cheers, 

Tim 

From: cisco-voip [ mailto:cisco-voip-bounces at puck.nether.net ] On Behalf Of Lelio Fulgenzi 
Sent: Tuesday, 21 January 2014 7:08 AM 
To: Jeremy Bresley 
Cc: cisco-voip at puck.nether.net 
Subject: Re: [cisco-voip] CM 8.6 to 9.1 

Thanks Jeremy! 

Lelio 

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Lelio Fulgenzi, B.A. 
Senior Analyst, Network Infrastructure 
Computing and Communications Services (CCS) 
University of Guelph 

519 ‐ 824 ‐ 4120 Ext 56354 
lelio at uoguelph.ca 
www.uoguelph.ca/ccs 
Room 037, Animal Science and Nutrition Building 
Guelph, Ontario, N1G 2W1 

From: "Jeremy Bresley" < brez at brezworks.com > 
To: cisco-voip at puck.nether.net 
Sent: Monday, January 20, 2014 1:42:23 PM 
Subject: Re: [cisco-voip] CM 8.6 to 9.1 

On 1/20/2014 9:22 AM, Stephen Welsh wrote: 

Hi Lelio, 

I believe the provisioning improvement you are referring too is the ability for end users to ‘self-provision’. My understanding it enables end users to setup a fresh phone on their desk as part of an initial deployment etc. basically a replacement for TAPS. They login to their phone using their UCM User details (aka AD user if integrated) and a pre-loaded profile is deployed to the phone. 

ASAIK it’s a phone firmware level feature that as long as the phone is on the desired software level it uses the new User Data Service (UDS) API to authenticate and configure the device. 

Personally I’m keen to see how this feature is implemented, i.e. will the user have to login twice if extension mobility is enabled ;) 

Kind Regards. 

Stephen Welsh 

The provisioning improvement in 10.0 is a single-cluster version of Cisco Prime Collaboration Provisioning. 

http://www.cisco.com/en/US/customer/prod/collateral/netmgtsw/ps6491/ps12363/data_sheet_c78-729645.html 

We're still in the roll-out stages of the stand-alone product, and are looking at it more for allowing remote IT people to be able to provision and do MACD work on phones without having to have CUCM/UConn expertise. Not sure what features are missing between the full-blown product and the integrated one in 10.0 however. One of the weekly Cisco Prime Demo's covered it a few weeks ago. http://bit.ly/PrimeDemo probably would be a good place to attend and ask questions about it. 

Jeremy "TheBrez" Bresley 
brez at brezworks.com 

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