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The following topics help you install and configure Cisco IP Phone Productivity Services:
1. Before You Begin Installing
2. Installing Cisco IP Phone Productivity Services 1.2
4. Configuring MailView for Cisco Unity E-mail
5. Preparing the Phone User for Cisco IP Phone Productivity Services
Before you begin to install Cisco IP Phone Productivity Services, check that you have met the system requirements and that you have information needed for installation at hand. See the following sections:
Cisco IP Phone Productivity Services interact with many elements in your IP telephony network. Some network elements need to be informed of Cisco IP Phone Productivity Services presence; other elements only interact indirectly with Cisco IP Phone Productivity Services and do not require such information. Have a fully-functional voice-over-IP network in place before installing Cisco IP Phone Productivity Services in your telephony network.
Figure 2-1 shows the Cisco IP Phone Productivity Services connection to the IP telephony network:
See Table 2-1 for Cisco IP Phone Productivity Services components. See Table 2-2 for server requirements for Cisco IP Phone Productivity Services.
Table 2-1 Components of Cisco IP Phone Productivity Services
Table 2-2 Server Requirements for Cisco IP Phone Productivity Services
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Use Table 2-3 to gather information that you need to install Cisco IP Phone Productivity Services. Be sure to have this information on hand when you start the installation.
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Note Do not include the domain suffix in the domain name for Domain Administrator User ID for Microsoft Exchange for CalendarView. For example, use unity\administrator, not unity.cisco.com\administrator. |
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Note For Personal Assistant Rule-Set Activation, you do not need to enter Cisco Personal Assistant server information. Cisco CallManager provides the Personal Assistant server information. |
To install Cisco IP Phone Productivity Services 1.2, perform the following steps:
Step 2 Use a web browser to access the following URL:
http://www.cisco.com/cgi-bin/tablebuild.pl/ip-prod-svcs
Step 3 Locate the Cisco IP Phone Productivity Services 1.2 application and download the file:
Step 4 Double-click on the downloaded file to launch the installer.
Step 5 Click Next at the Welcome to the Cisco IP Phone Productivity Services Installation Wizard window
Step 6 All of the services within Cisco IP Phone Productivity Services (CalendarView, Contacts Synchronization, MailView and Personal Assistant Rule-Set Activation) are installed by default.
Step 7 Click Next.
Step 8 Enter Cisco CallManager information:
Step 9 Click Next.
At this point, the installation checks for the presence of Cisco CallManager Release 3.1. The Cisco IP Phone Productivity Services installation will not continue until Cisco CallManager Release 3.1 is installed.
Step 10 You are prompted to enter the following information.
For the Cisco Unity server, enter:
For the Microsoft Exchange 2000 server, enter:
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Note For Microsoft Exchange 5.5, instead of entering the Domain Administrator User ID, enter the service account User ID. |
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Note Do not include the domain suffix in the domain name for Domain Administrator User ID. For example, use unity\administrator, not unity.cisco.com\administrator. |
As prompted, enter the fully-qualified name of your SMTP domain.
Step 11 The screen displays the settings of the servers you have entered:
Step 12 In the Ready to Install Cisco IP Phone Productivity Services window, click Next.
Step 13 Enter the network password for the Cisco Call Manager server. This is necessary to configure Cisco IP Phone Productivity Services.
Step 14 Click OK.
Step 15 Reboot the system.
The installation of Cisco IP Phone Productivity Services is complete.
Be sure to perform the required configuration for CalendarView and MailView. Proceed to the following sections:
To configure CalendarView, perform the following procedures, where appropriate for your system type:
If you are using a non-Cisco Unity Microsoft Exchange 2000 server for CalendarView, you require privileges to access all the users' accounts. You do not have to perform this procedure for Exchange 5.5 servers.
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Note The Cisco CallManager User ID must match the user mailbox name in the Exchange Server. |
To set privileges to access all the uses' accounts, perform the following steps:
Step 2 On the Exchange System Manager form, under the <your organization>, select Servers.
<Your Exchange Server> displays.
Step 3 Right click on <Your Exchange Server> to bring up the Properties form for <your Exchange Server>.
The Properties form displays.
Step 4 On the Properties form, select the Security tab.
The Form displays Name and Permissions boxes.
Step 5 In the Name box, select
Administrator user [<domain-name>\Administrator].
Step 6 In the Permissions box, enable the Allow field for Receive As and Send As fields.
Step 7 Click OK on the form.
Now you are set up to access all the user accounts.
If you are running Microsoft Exchange 5.5 on an NT system for CalendarView, there are two additional configurations that you might have to make.
To create a mailbox for administrator, perform the following steps:
Step 2 Select the Recipients node under <your organization> <site name>.
Step 3 Click on File >New Mailbox.
Step 4 Use Alias as administrator.
First name/last name can be the same.
Step 5 Click on Primary Windows NT Account and check the option Select an existing account.
Step 6 Click OK.
If you are using a non-Cisco Unity Microsoft Exchange 5.5 server on an NT system for CalendarView and if the administrator account is not the service account, you must make the following change in the setup for Cisco IP Phone Productivity Services.
To make the administrator account the service account, perform the following procedure:
Step 2 Select Cisco PPS under Default Web Services.
Step 3 Right click to open the Properties window.
Step 4 In the Properties window, select the Directory Security tab.
Step 5 Click Edit on Anonymous access and authentication control.
Step 6 Click Edit on Anonymous access.
Step 7 In the Anonymous User Account window, change the userid and password to match that of the service account.
Step 8 Click OK.
Step 9 Stop the Cisco Meeting Reminder service from the Services user interface.
Step 10 Click Properties.
Step 11 Select the Logon tab.
Step 12 Change the account user and password to service account user (run as domainName/ServiceAccountID and password.)
Step 13 Start the Cisco Meeting Reminder service.
You have changed the administrator account to the service account.
If you have Outlook installed on a server with Cisco IP Phone Productivity Services, perform the following steps to add a user profile to your computer. Make sure that Outlook is installed in the corporate or work group mode before you perform this procedure.
Step 2 Double click pm the Mail icon.
Step 3 Click Show Profiles.
Step 4 Click on Add. Select the Microsoft Exchange Server.
Step 5 Enter the Microsoft Exchange Server name and Mailbox as:
Step 6 Click on Finish.
Perform the following two procedures to enable MailView for Cisco Unity e-mail:
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Note Make sure that, as Microsoft Exchange Domain administrator, you have access to all users' mailboxes. |
To set up the Message Format on the Microsoft Exchange server used for Cisco Unity to enable users to view their e-mails, perform the following steps:
Step 2 On the Exchange Server Manager form, under <your-organization>, select Servers.
<Your Exchange Server> displays.
Step 3 Select <Your Exchange Server / Protocols / IMAP4 > Default IMAP4 Virtual Server Properties>.
Step 4 Right click on Default IMAP4 Virtual Server.
The Default IMAP4 Virtual Server Properties form displays.
Step 5 In the MIME encoding section, select Both and click OK to close the form.
You must set e-mail IDs for each Cisco Unity user to match the Microsoft Exchange server e-mail IDs.You must add an e-mail alias for each mail recipient of the form userid@domain name of type "voice." See Figure 2-2.
This enables the Cisco Unity server to recognize that MailView replies and forwards are voice mail. It also allows users to receive MailView replies and forwards of "voice" type.
Once you have installed Cisco IP Phone Productivity Services, provide your phone users with the following information:
Posted: Wed Sep 17 13:36:25 PDT 2003
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