Connect To Microsoft Active Directory - Polycom RealPresence DMA 7000 System Operation Manual

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Note: Resource management and MCU pools
If you have a Polycom RealPresence Resource Manager system that's going to use the
RealPresence DMA system API to schedule conferences on the RealPresence DMA system's
conferencing resources (MCU pools), you must create MCU pools and pool orders specifically for the
use of the RealPresence Resource Manager system. The pool orders should be named in such a way
that:
They appear at the top of the pool order list presented in the RealPresence Resource Manager
system.
Users of that system will understand that they should choose one of those pool orders.
If the RealPresence Resource Manager system is also going to be used to directly schedule
conferences on MCUs, those MCUs should not be part of the conferencing resources (MCU pools)
available to the RealPresence DMA system.
Every conference room (VMR) is associated with an MCU pool order. The pool(s) to which an MCU belongs,
and the pool order(s) to which a pool belongs, are used to determine which MCU is used to host a
conference. See
MCU Pools
as well as the rules that the system uses to choose an MCU for a user.
The Polycom RealPresence DMA system uses conference templates to define the conferencing experience
associated with a conference room or enterprise group. You can create standalone templates
(recommended), setting the conferencing parameters directly in the Polycom RealPresence DMA system,
or link templates to RealPresence
Templates).
Both methods allow you to specify most conference parameters:
● General information such as line rate, encryption, auto termination, and H.239 settings
● Video settings such as mode (presentation or lecture) and layout
● IVR settings
● Conference recording settings
If you want to create RealPresence DMA system templates linked to conference profiles on the
RealPresence Collaboration Server or RMX MCUs, make sure the profiles used by the Polycom
RealPresence DMA system exist on all the MCUs and are defined the same on all of them.

Connect to Microsoft Active Directory

Connecting to Microsoft® Active Directory® simplifies the task of deploying conferencing to a large
organization. All Polycom RealPresence DMA system access to the Active Directory server is read-only and
minimally impacts the directory performance. See
Note: Consult an expert
If you're not knowledgeable about enterprise directories in general and your specific implementation in
particular, please consult with someone who is. Active Directory integration is a non-trivial matter.
Before integrating with Active Directory, be sure that one or more DNS servers are specified (this should
have been done during installation and initial setup). See
Polycom, Inc.
Polycom RealPresence DMA System Initial Configuration Summary
and
MCU Pool Orders
®
Collaboration Server or RMX conference profiles (see
Microsoft Active Directory
for information about how to use pools and pool orders,
®
Network
Settings.
Conference
®
Integration.
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