Chapter 4 Configuring Personal Assistant

Integrating Personal Assistant with a Cisco Unity Voice Messaging System

Do the following six procedures, in the order given, to configure and test the integration.

To Add the Personal Assistant Server to the Domain of the Cisco Unity Server

Step 1 On the Windows Start menu, click Settings > Control Panel > System.

Step 2 Click the Network Identification tab.

Step 3 Click Properties.

Step 4 In the Identification Changes dialog box, click Domain, and enter the name of the domain to which the Cisco Unity server belongs. (For example, “Unified.cisco.com.”)

Step 5 Click OK.

Step 6 In the Domain Username and Password dialog box, enter the name and password of an account that has permission to add computers to the domain.

Step 7 Click OK three times.

Step 8 Click Yes to restart the server.

You must configure two Personal Assistant services— PAServer and PAWebAdmin—to log on as an account with domain administrator privileges for the Cisco Unity domain.

To Configure Two Personal Assistant Services to Log on with Cisco Unity Domain Administrator Privileges

Step 1 On the Windows Start menu, click Programs > Administrative Tools > Services.

Step 2 In the right pane, double-click PAServer.

Step 3 Click the Log On tab.

Step 4 Click This Account.

Step 5 Click Browse.

Step 6 In the Select User dialog box, in the Look In list, click the name of the domain to which the Cisco Unity server belongs.

Step 7 Double-click the name of an account with Cisco Unity domain administrator privileges. Step 8 Enter and confirm the password.

Step 9 Click Apply.

Step 10 Click the General tab.

Step 11 Click Stop.

Step 12 Click Start.

Step 13 Click OK.

Step 14 Repeat Step 2 through Step 13 with the PAWebAdmin service.

Step 15 When you are done setting the accounts, close the Services window.

If the Cisco Unity message store is Exchange 5.5, skip to the “To Add the Outlook Path to the System Path Variable” procedure on page 4-22.

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1.4 specifications

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