Cisco Unity, Installation Manual

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CHAPTER 1: Introduction
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Introducing
Unity
Unity provides a range of capabilities—from basic voice messag-
ing to unified messaging—by working with the following soft-
ware:
Windows NT Server or Windows 2000 Server Windows NT
Server version 4.0 or Windows 2000 Server is the required oper-
ating system for Unity.
Exchange Server
Unity uses Exchange Server version 5.5 for
address directory information and for message storage.
Exchange provides a single address directory for voice messages,
e-mail, and faxes, and communicates this information with
Unity by using LDAP. Messages are accessed by using MAPI.
Exchange also provides gateway access to other messaging
systems.
ActiveFax for Unity
ActiveFax, the optional fax component of
Unity, provides fax server functionality on the Unity server or on
a separate server.
Fax server software When an installation includes integrating a
third-party fax server with Unity, the fax server software is
installed on the fax server. Installation and administration are
controlled by the fax server software and not by Unity.
Internet Explorer Microsoft Internet Explorer version 4.01 or
later is required for Web browser access to the Unity administra-
tion pages and to subscribers’ ActiveAssistant
™ pages. Version 5
or later is required to access the Unity Status Monitor. (Netscape
Navigator ® is not supported.)
Internet Information Server
Microsoft Internet Information
Server version 4.0 hosts the Active Server Pages used for Unity
administration. We recommend that the Unity server not be used
to host any other Web pages.
Unified messaging clients
Microsoft Outlook ® 97, Outlook 98,
and Outlook 2000 support ViewMail ® for Microsoft Outlook. With
ViewMail, voice messages appear in the Outlook Inbox, and are
played and recorded by using a form that has VCR-like controls.
(Without ViewMail, Outlook behaves like the e-mail clients
described under the following “E-mail clients.”)
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