For heavy Extension Mobility users, this feature will be a relief! Some organizations had even opted to sync their Active Directory End-User accounts using the “telephone” or “ipPhone” field instead of “sAMAccountName,” in order to workaround this limitation, creating lots of further headaches when turning on more advanced functionalities such as Jabber – this will no longer be required.Extension Mobility: ability to login using a numeric Directory Number, instead of an alphanumeric User ID.Other products within Cisco’s Collaboration portfolio should follow suit as well in the following releases.Ĭisco Unified Communications Manager (CUCM) 12.0Įnhancements for integration with the Cisco Collaboration Cloud for Spark
That’s it, happy days! For organizations where UC servers are not granted direct Internet access, an optional proxy server, named Cisco Smart Software Manager Satellite, can be downloaded free of charge and deployed to act as a secure intermediate between Cisco and your products located inside your private network.ĬSR 12.0 brings Smart Licensing to CUCM, CUC as well as Cisco Emergency Responder (CER) and CUCM Session Management Edition (SME). This will allow it to register back to Cisco using the right Smart Account. After standing up the new application (a new CUCM virtual machine, in our example), you add your Smart Account token (again found on Cisco’s portal) to your product instance.
Purchases of Cisco software licenses get electronically and directly transferred to a Smart Account on Cisco’s Smart Software Manager portal.Standing up a new system with Smart Licensing, CUCM for example, is now simplified in the following manner: This methodology easily allows for licenses pooling across an organization, centralizes the management of the different licenses you own and consume, as well as decouples licenses with the product instances that consume them.
The concept behind Smart Licensing is simple: Cisco holds all licenses for your software-based products, and all products connect back to Cisco to validate their entitlement and license consumption. Gone are the days of registering PAK numbers on Cisco’s Licensing Portal, generate license file requests, installing license files on Cisco Unified Communications Manager (CUCM), Cisco Unity Connection (CUC) and the likes.
This would effectively prevent Jabber from providing notifications of a new call or new IM events, as an example.