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Chapter 5 AMIS Networking

Procedures for Setting Up Cisco Unity to Use AMIS

Although most restriction table settings do not apply to AMIS subscribers because they cannot log on to Cisco Unity or use the Cisco Personal Communications Assistant (PCA), administrators can enter call transfer numbers for AMIS subscribers. For security purposes, you should modify the restriction table used for transfers in the COS to which AMIS subscribers belong, as necessary. For details, see the “Managing Restriction Tables” chapter in the System Administration Guide for Cisco Unity.

4.Public Distribution Lists

Public distribution lists are used to send voice messages to multiple subscribers at the same time. Cisco Unity assigns new subscribers to the public distribution lists that are specified in the template on which the subscriber account is based. For details, see the “Managing Distribution Lists” chapter in the System Administration Guide for Cisco Unity.

Public distribution lists correspond to distribution groups in Active Directory. The distribution lists are listed in the address book for Microsoft Outlook (or other e-mail client), unless they are explicitly hidden. To help prevent others from sending e-mail to AMIS subscribers, you may want to create lists that contain only AMIS subscribers, and then hide these distribution lists from the Outlook address book. The option to hide distribution lists is available on the Subscribers > Public Distribution Lists > Profile page in the Cisco Unity Administrator.

5.Subscriber Templates

In the Cisco Unity Administrator, you can specify settings for a group of subscribers by using a subscriber template. Subscriber templates contain settings that are applicable for subscribers of a particular type, such as a department. The settings from the template you choose are applied to subscriber accounts as the accounts are created. Cisco Unity comes with a default subscriber template that you can modify, and you can create an unlimited number of additional templates. For more details, see the “Managing Subscriber Templates” chapter in the System Administration Guide for Cisco Unity.

AMIS subscribers correspond to contacts in Active Directory. The contacts are listed in the address book for Microsoft Outlook (or other e-mail client), unless they are explicitly hidden. You may prefer that the associated contacts do not appear in the Outlook address book at all, or you may want to alter how contacts appear in the Outlook address book. See the “Determining How AMIS Subscribers Appear in the Outlook Address Book” section on page 5-34for details.

Note The System Administration Guide for Cisco Unity is available at http://www.cisco.com/en/US/products/sw/voicesw/ps2237/prod_maintenance_guides_list.html.

Using the Cisco Unity Bulk Import Wizard to Create Multiple AMIS Subscriber Accounts

The Cisco Unity Bulk Import wizard allows you to create multiple subscriber accounts at once by importing user data from a comma-separated value (CSV) file. CSV is a common text file format for moving data from one data store to another.

As long as the user data contained in the CSV file is formatted correctly, you can use it to create new contacts in Active Directory at the same time that you create subscriber accounts. Alternatively, the Cisco Unity Bulk Import wizard allows you to use a CSV file to create subscriber accounts with existing Active Directory contact data.

If you choose to create subscriber accounts with existing contact data, note that the e-mail addresses for the imported contacts are overwritten with extension addresses used for addressing voice messages to the remote voice messaging systems. Thus, the imported objects can no longer be used for outbound message addressing to remote e-mail addresses.

Use the following “To Prepare a CSV File for Creating AMIS Subscriber Accounts” procedure to prepare your CSV file.

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