As a complement to Ryans post, the CCMAdministrator account is referred to as an "Application" user as opposed to an "End" user in CUCM 5X and higher. That means that even if AD is unreachable I can still manage the system via the CCMAdministrator account. Also, this CCMAdministrator account is not just there by default but is what most integrators use when they first setup CUCM 5 and higher. They probably do this more from a comfort perspective than a have to. From what I barely remember from the 4X days when we enabled MLA I think that forced us to use CCMAdministrator or our own userID. Again, it has been a while for me dealing with 4X.<div>
<br></div><div>Mac<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, May 17, 2010 at 1:58 PM, Ryan Ratliff <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:rratliff@cisco.com">rratliff@cisco.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">
<div style="word-wrap:break-word">Nothing about this is specific to Unity, that just happens to be the same server as your AD. Replace every instance of Unity with AD in your email below and see if you can answer your own questions.<div>
<br></div><div>The ldap integration with CUCM 5.x and later is completely different than in 4.x We no longer just point to the external ldap, but actually sync in users from ldap. This means your directory is still there when AD is down (except for auth, if you configure it). </div>
<div><br></div><div>The custom corporate directory has been asked numerous times on this list. You should be able to find a good bit of info on it from the archives. Basically you will need to create a custom directory search page to search AD however you want it to be searched.</div>
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<br><div><div><div></div><div class="h5"><div>On May 17, 2010, at 1:44 PM, <a href="mailto:george.hendrix@l-3com.com" target="_blank">george.hendrix@l-3com.com</a> wrote:</div><br></div></div><blockquote type="cite"><span style="border-collapse:separate;font-family:Helvetica;font-size:medium;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;font-weight:normal;letter-spacing:normal;line-height:normal;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px"><div lang="EN-US" link="blue" vlink="purple">
<div><div></div><div class="h5"><div><div style="margin-top:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:0.0001pt;margin-left:0in;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri, sans-serif">Hi everyone,</div><div style="margin-top:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:0.0001pt;margin-left:0in;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri, sans-serif">
</div><div style="margin-top:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:0.0001pt;margin-left:0in;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri, sans-serif"> I have an old cluster with CCM 4.2(3) that seems to be integrated with the AD in the Unity VM server. Users can be added in Unity admin webpage and then get populated in the CCM global directory. The user password must be changed by the administrator in Unity, not CCM. Also, the CCMAdministrator user account is in the Unity server. Anytime Unity is down, the CCM admin page cannot be accessed. The directories URL for phones still point to the CCM server,<span> </span><a href="http://ccm1/CCMCIP/xmldirectory.asp" style="color:blue;text-decoration:underline" target="_blank">http://ccm1/CCMCIP/xmldirectory.asp</a>.</div>
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So having said that, we would like to have our different sites show separately when users press the directories button on their phone. Can I accomplish this using Unity and then just point to a directory on the Unity server since it is already integrated with it or what would be the best approach to accomplish this? I’d prefer doing this than a separate server that would be separately managed and create more work. Also, if we were to pull directory services from the unity server, is that still possible in new versions of CUCM such as versions 7 and 8?</div>
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Thanks,</div><div style="margin-top:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:0.0001pt;margin-left:0in;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri, sans-serif"> </div><div style="margin-top:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:0.0001pt;margin-left:0in;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri, sans-serif">
<span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial, sans-serif;color:rgb(31, 73, 125)">Bill Hendrix</span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman', serif"></span></div><div style="margin-top:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:0.0001pt;margin-left:0in;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri, sans-serif">
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