Table Of Contents

Preface

Obtaining Documentation, Obtaining Support, and Security Guidelines

Audience and Scope

What's New in this Release

New in Release 1.7.2:

New in Release 1.7:

Preface

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First Published: September 27, 2010, OL-22226-01

Obtaining Documentation, Obtaining Support, and Security Guidelines

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Audience and Scope

The Cisco TelePresence Manager Administration and Installation Guide is directed to the administrator that configures, monitors, and maintains the Cisco TelePresence Manager application, and troubleshoots problems that may occur.

What's New in this Release

This section describes new and changed information in Cisco TelePresence Manager beginning with Release 1.7.2.

New in Release 1.7.2:

•Support for connection to WebEx via proxy server

•Meeting organizer email for WebEx account deactivation

•Support for NTLM v2 session for authentication in Exchange Web Services (EWS)

•Windows 7 support

•Download archived log files by date

New in Release 1.7:

•WebEx OneTouch - Meeting organizers can now add WebEx participants to their meeting. Meeting organizers can be assigned to one of three WebEx roles:

–WebEx Permitted User - can request WebEx for meetings on an individual basis

–WebEx Premium User - automatically has WebEx for all meetings

–Non-Permitted WebEx User - is not permitted to use WebEx with meetings

•Easy Video Conference Scheduling - Third-party VC endpoints can now be configured as groupware resources in the same manner as CTS endpoints which allows meeting organizers to reserve VC rooms from their calendar application, along with CTS endpoints. Once a VC room is included in a scheduled TelePresence meeting, CTS-Manager automatically recognizes that it is a video conferencing interop meeting, reserves the necessary resources, generates the call in number and meeting number, and includes the call-in information for the VC participants in the meeting confirmation email.

•Meeting Extension- Flexible meeting extension features, including the new Meeting Extension Premium role that allows specific user groups to have the capability to extend meetings.

•Enforced License-based features:

–Room-based licenses - correspond to the number of CTS devices and VC devices used for TelePresence meetings, based on one license per room. Licenses are available in groups of 10, 50 and 100 devices.

–Feature-based licenses include:

•Scheduling API - supports organizations that need calendaring integration other than with MS Exchange or IBM Domino.

•Metrics Dashboard and Reporting API - Metrics dashboard gives administrators an overview of scheduled meetings, return on investment, and travel avoidance savings. The reporting API allows developers to gather both scheduled and ad hoc meeting information, plus survey answers to compute custom metrics dashboards to meet customers needs.

•For more information about these APIs go to http://developer.cisco.com.

•VC Rooms status and configuration - The Support > VC Rooms window displays status information for all video conferencing meeting rooms registered with CTS-Manager. The Configure > VC Rooms window allows you to add and view the status of video conferencing rooms in CTS-Manager.

•Graphic user interface for CTS-Manager updated to Cisco standard style.

•System Resources - The Troubleshoot > System Resources window provides tracking information for memory, disk usage, and Ethernet traffic in a graphical snapshot format.

•Not-A-TelePresence Meeting - Allows a meeting organizer who schedules a meeting with only one Telepresence room to select option of non-Telepresence meeting to prevent an error message.

•Microsoft Exchange 2010 with Windows Server 2008 and IBM Domino 8.5 support.

•HD-Interop with Media Experience Engine (MXE) - New gateway for inter-operation with non-CTS endpoints configured in the Configure > Application Settings > Bridges and Servers window.

•Remove Email Prefixes from Meeting Subject on IP Phone- In the Configure > Application Settings > Email window, this feature allows email prefixes including "FW:, RE: and Updated:" can be removed from the subject line of TelePresence meeting emails.

•Cisco Unified Video Conferencing (CUVC) Gateway now supports high definition interoperation with non CTS endpoints using 720P or standard definition using CIF.

•Support for multiple CUVC Servers using CUVC-M solution for scalability.

•Group email by conversation in Microsoft Outlook - This feature allows you to group CTS-Manager emails by Outlook's group by Conversation feature. This feature groups emails according to their subject line making it easier for you to sort and find emails related to scheduled meetings. This feature is useful when a meeting organizer, participant or administrator wants to sort TelePresence meeting emails by subject in order to find an email related to a specific meeting.