Not 100% sure about this, but I think if you used separate accounts for your email vs voicemail, you wouldnt have to upgrade to UM. As long as you were still using it as "voicemail only" and not using the same accounts for email, I would think you'd be OK. I would think the CALs for voicemail would be included in your VM-only user licenses from cisco. Maybe one of the cisco folks knows if that's permissible.
<br><br>Not sure what kinda mojo you'd need to work to get them from your unity exchange box to a new system and keep them separate from your standard user accounts.<br><br><br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 7/5/06,
<b class="gmail_sendername">Brian Duncan</b> <<a href="mailto:duncanw@otc.edu">duncanw@otc.edu</a>> wrote:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
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<p><font face="Arial" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;">We are in talks on campus about migrating to an MS Exchange
system for email. We are currently running Unity voicemail. I
understand from my readings that if we purchase an exchange system from Microsoft
with the proper client access licenses and move our current exchange mailboxes
over we will be violating some license with Cisco and will need to migrate to
Unified Messaging. </span></font></p>
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<p><font face="Arial" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;">The thing is I can't get anyone to explain to me what
benefit I actually get (besides being able to listen to my voicemail in outlook…whoop-didee-doo)
from the over $30,000 they are asking for the upgrade. </span></font></p>
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<p><font face="Arial" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;">Where is the additional cost to Cisco? It seems to me
like if I use an exchange server other then theirs I should be saving
money. What do we actually get? Is anyone actually using UM?</span></font></p>
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<p><font face="Arial" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;">Any help you guys might be able to offer would be greatly
appreciated. </span></font></p>
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<p><font face="Arial" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;">Brian Duncan</span></font></p>
<p><font face="Arial" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;">Coordinator of Telecommunications</span></font></p>
<p><font face="Arial" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;">Ozarks</span></font><font face="Arial" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;"> Technical Community College</span></font>
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<p><font face="Arial" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;">Springfield</span></font><font face="Arial" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;">, MO 65802</span></font></p>
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<p><font face="Arial" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;"><a href="mailto:duncanw@otc.edu" target="_blank" onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)">duncanw@otc.edu</a></span></font></p>
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