Polycom 7000 manual Integrations with Other Systems, Microsoft Active Directory Integration

Integrations with Other Systems

This section describes the following Polycom® RealPresence® Distributed Media Application™ (DMA®)

7000 system configuration topics related to integrating the system with external systems:

●Microsoft Active Directory® Integration

●Microsoft® Lync® 2013 Integration

●Microsoft Exchange Server Integration

●RealPresence Resource Manager Integration

●Juniper Networks SRC Integration

Microsoft Active Directory® Integration

When you integrate the Polycom RealPresence DMA system with your Microsoft Active Directory®, the enterprise users (Active Directory members) become Conferencing Users in the Polycom RealPresence 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 RealPresence DMA system accesses the directory under the following circumstances:

●Nightly, to update the user and group information in its cache.

●Whenever you force a cache refresh using the Update button.

●To authenticate login passwords.

●To create or delete Polycom conference contacts whenever a publishable VMR is created or deleted (only if the RealPresence DMA system is integrated with Microsoft Lync 2013 and contact creation is enabled).

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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