Cisco Systems 5.x manual You do not need to restart Cisco Unity to enable the change

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.

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