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Chapter 5 Upgrading to Cisco Unified MeetingPlace Web Conferencing Release 5.3

About Upgrading to Cisco Unified MeetingPlace Web Conferencing Release 5.3(235) and Later Releases

•One of the many improvements in the Release 5.3 feature set is the ability to customize the user interface, such as hide/show fields or display custom strings, through web-based administrative pages. Unlike earlier releases, these customizations are stored in the SQL database as part of the Cisco Unified MeetingPlace Web Conferencing configuration. Therefore, customizations are maintained between software release upgrades.

•With the introduction of the self-customization capability in Release 5.3, Cisco Systems no longer honors customization requests for Customer Premise Equipment (CPE) customers, and Cisco TAC no longer supports CPE systems that are customized beyond the built-in configuration capabilities of the product, or beyond the documented configuration settings, procedures or instructions.

Examples of such customizations include, but are not limited to, the following: modifying web page templates, changing HTML or JavaScript code, changing IIS running parameters or applying custom ASP pages or ISAPI filters, modifying SQL server configuration or authentication method, modifying Windows OS security through IPSec policies and NTFS ACL, and so on.

About Upgrading to Cisco Unified MeetingPlace Web Conferencing Release 5.3(235) and Later Releases

This section provides information that you may need to know before upgrading to Release 5.3(235) and later releases.

Topics in this section include:

•User Authentication Methods in Release 5.3(235) and Later, page 5-2

•Load Balancing in Release 5.3(333) and Later, page 5-2

User Authentication Methods in Release 5.3(235) and Later

Before Release 5.3(235), Cisco Unified MeetingPlace Web Conferencing supported three authentication methods:

•MeetingPlace Authentication

•HTTP Basic Authentication

•Windows Integrated Authentication

In Release 5.3(235) and later releases, Cisco Unified MeetingPlace Web Conferencing now supports additional authentication methods and has a redesigned configuration interface. Consequently, when you upgrade an earlier release of Cisco Unified MeetingPlace Web Conferencing to Release 5.3(235) and later, you must reconfigure your web server to use the desired authentication method.

For instructions, see Chapter 5, “Configuring User Authentication in Cisco Unified MeetingPlace Web Conferencing Release 5.3(235) and Later Releases” in the Configuration Guide for Cisco Unified MeetingPlace Web Conferencing Release 5.3.

Load Balancing in Release 5.3(333) and Later

If you have Cisco Unified MeetingPlace load balancing configured and plan to upgrade to Cisco Unified MeetingPlace Web Conferencing Release 5.3(333) and later, be aware of the following update:

Installation and Upgrade Guide for Cisco Unified MeetingPlace Web Conferencing Release 5.3

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