Posted by: William Bell
on Jun 14, 2009
One feature with CUPS and CUPC is the ability to consume and aggregate presence information from Microsoft Exchange. CUPS uses this information to (a) present meeting information to the IP Phone Messenger application on CiscoIP phone and (b) to provide status information to presence consumers (like CUPC) based on Calendar events. There are some gotchas to consider.
Posted by: William Bell
on May 29, 2009
When the OS Install Software web interface appears to hang and not process requests to start an upgrade you may need to execute it from the command shell. I experienced this specific issue on upgrading CUCM 6.1(1) to 6.1(3). But, knowing how to do what you need to via the CLI is always a handy tool.
Posted by: William Bell
on Mar 30, 2009
When deploying Cisco Unified Communications Manager (CUCM) and Cisco Unified Presence (CUPS) one of the design objectives should be to architect a solution that adds dynamic fault tolerance. One can achieve this objective by leveraging DNS SRV records.