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Chapter 7 VPIM Networking

VPIM Concepts and Definitions

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 procedure to prevent all subscribers who are associated with the Cisco Unity server

from adding individual subscribers to their private lists in the Cisco Unity Assistant. The 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 so that 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.)

Step 5 When prompted, click OK.

Step 6 Click Exit.

You do not need to restart Cisco Unity to enable the change.

Migrating Subscribers from Another Voice Messaging System to Cisco Unity

If you are using VPIM to migrate from another voice messaging system to Cisco Unity, there are several

tools that you can use to create Cisco Unity subscribers from VPIM subscriber information. See the

following sections for more information:

• Migrating Subscribers in Bulk, page 7-56

• Migrating Subscribers One at a Time, page 7-57

• Private List Considerations for Migrating Subscribers, page 7-57

Following are the general steps for migrating VPIM subscribers to Cisco Unity subscribers, in bulk. See

the Help files of the applicable tools for more detailed information. (Click the Tools Depot icon on the

Cisco Unity server, and click the applicable tool in the left pane to view the Help file.)

1. As a best practice, back up the Cisco Unity server (just as a precaution, because you will be deleting

data).

2. Run Subscriber Information Dump from Tools Depot, and output the VPIM subscriber information

to a CSV file.

3. Modify the CSV file as needed so that you can use it as the input file when you use the Cisco Unity

Bulk Import wizard to create Cisco Unity subscribers.