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Integrations with Other Systems

This chapter describes the following Polycom® Distributed Media Application™ (DMA™) 7000 system configuration topics related to integrating the system with external systems:

•Microsoft Active Directory Integration

•Microsoft Exchange Server Integration

•Resource Management System Integration

•Juniper Networks SRC Integration

Microsoft Active Directory Integration

When you integrate the Polycom DMA system with your Microsoft Active Directory, the enterprise users (Active Directory members) become Conferencing Users in the Polycom DMA system. Each enterprise user is (optionally) assigned a conference room, or virtual meeting room (VMR). The conference room IDs are typically generated from the enterprise users’ phone numbers.

Once integrated with Active Directory, the Polycom DMA system reads the directory information nightly to update the user and group information in its cache.You can force a cache refresh at any time using the Update button. Between updates, it accesses the directory only to authenticate login passwords.

In a superclustered environment, one cluster is responsible for integrating with Active Directory and updating the cache daily, and the cache is available to all clusters through the replicated shared data store. The other clusters connect to Active Directory only to authenticate user credentials.

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