DMA OperationsGuide Microsoft Active Directory Integration
152 Polycom, Inc.
Enterprise Conference Room ID Generation
Directory attribute The name of the Active Directory attribute from which
the Polycom DMA system should derive conference
room IDs (virtual meeting room numbers). Generally,
organizations use a phone number field for this.
The attribute must be in the Active Directory schema
and preferably should be replicated across the
enterprise via the Global Catalog server mechanism.
But if the attribute isn’t in the Global Catalog, the system
queries each domain controller for the data.
Leave this field blank if you don’t want the system to
create conference rooms for the enterprise users.
Characters to remove Characters that might need to be stripped from a phone
number field’s value to ensure a numeric conference
room ID.
The default string includes \t, which represents the tab
character. Use \\ to remove backslash characters.
If generating alphanumeric conference room IDs,
remove the following:
()&%#@|"':;,
Single spaces in the source field are preserved, but
multiple consecutive spaces are concatenated to one
space.
Maximum characters
used
Desired length of conference room IDs. The Polycom
DMA system strips excess characters from the
beginning, not the end. If you specify 7, the room IDs will
contain the last 7 valid characters from the Active
Directory attribute being used.
Enterprise Chairperson and Conference Passcode Generation
Chairperson directory
attribute
The name of the Active Directory attribute that contains
the chairperson passcodes. In choosing an attribute,
remember that passcodes must be numeric.
The attribute must be in the Active Directory schema
and preferably should be replicated across the
enterprise via the Global Catalog server mechanism.
But if the attribute isn’t in the Global Catalog, the system
queries each domain controller for the data.
Leave this field blank if you don’t want the system to
create chairperson passcodes for the enterprise users.
Maximum characters
used
Desired length of chairperson passcodes. The Polycom
DMA system strips excess characters from the
beginning, not the end. If you specify 7, the passcodes
will contain the last 7 numeric characters from the Active
Directory attribute being used.
Table 7-1 Fields on the Microsoft Active Directory page (continued)
Field Description