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Chapter 5 AMIS Networking
AMIS Concepts and Definitions
Preventing Subscribers From Adding Individual Subscribers to Private Lists in the Cisco Unity Assistant
In the transition from a legacy voice messaging system to Cisco Unity, your organization may choose to
migrate users to Cisco Unity in phases. As a result, Cisco Unity will likely support both regular
subscribers and “external” subscribers—Bridge, AMIS, or VPIM contacts (as applicable)—at the same
time. Regular subscribers can send messages to external subscribers, and even add them to their private
distribution lists during the transition.
However, once external subscribers are converted into regular Cisco Unity subscribers, they are
automatically removed from all private lists without notifying private list owners. When this occurs,
subscribers may continue to send messages to their private lists without realizing that some of their
intended recipients no longer receive them.
When convenient and practical, Cisco Unity Administrators should notify subscribers when external
subscribers are converted to regular subscribers, notifying subscribers that they should re-add the newly
migrated subscribers to existing private lists, as applicable. During the migration phase, you may also
want to consider preventing subscribers from adding subscribers to their private lists in the Cisco Unity
Assistant, and asking them not to use the Cisco Unity phone menus to do so—at least until the migration
process is complete.
Use the following “To Prevent Subscribers From Adding Individual Subscribers to Private Lists in the
Cisco Unity Assistant” procedure to prevent all subscribers that are associated with the Cisco Unity
server from adding individual subscribers to their private lists in the Cisco Unity Assistant. When the
change has been made, when subscribers add members to their lists in the Cisco Unity Assistant, the
Find Names dialog box does not display the Subscribers tab. (Subscribers can continue to add
distribution lists to their lists from the Distribution Lists tab.)
Note This procedure does not prevent subscribers from using the Cisco Unity phone menus to add regular and
external subscribers to their private lists, nor does it prevent subscribers from addressing messages to
regular and external subscribers.
To Prevent Subscribers From Adding Individual Subscribers to Private Lists in the Cisco Unity Assistant
Step 1 On the Cisco Unity server desktop, double-click the Cisco Unity Tools Depot icon.
Step 2 In the left pane, under Administrative Tools, double-click Advanced Settings Tool.
Step 3 In the Unity Settings pane, click Unity Assistant—Do Not Allow Subscribers to Add Subscribers to
Private Lists.
Step 4 In the New Value list, click 1, and then click Set.
Step 5 When prompted, click OK.
Step 6 Click Exit.
You do not need to restart Cisco Unity to enable the change.