Installing The Polycom Cx7000 System; Preparing Your Network For Installation - Polycom CX7000 series Administrator's Manual

Administrator's Guide for Polycom CX7000 Systems

Installing the Polycom CX7000 System

Preparing Your Network for Installation

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Only single Active Directory forest topology is supported
Ensure that your corporate network environment is running one of the
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following:
— Microsoft Exchange Server 2010 or 2007 with the auto-discover service
enabled
— Microsoft Lync Server 2010 with the auto-discover service enabled
Ensure that your network provides adequate bandwidth for video
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conferencing. Video calls at 720p resolution require the following call
speeds:
— Minimum for 720p calls: 1.5 Mbps
— Recommended for 720p calls: 2 Mbps or greater
If the CX7000 System will sign in to a domain account, do the following
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for each system before you start the system and run the setup wizard.
— Ensure that the system's account is placed into an appropriate
Organizational Unit (OU).
— Ensure that the system's account has an appropriate policy applied
that ensures that no login scripts are run, no software is installed, and
the software whitelist is not modified.
— Disable the User must change password at next logon setting.
— Enable the Password never expires setting.
— Make a note of the domain, domain account name, and the password
for each system.
— Create an Exchange user or room mailbox for the domain account.
» If you create a room mailbox, right click the room account and
select Properties > Resource Information, and ensure that the
Delete Comments option is unchecked.
Create a Lync account for each system.
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For Office 365 accounts, the initial temporary password must be changed
before you can use the account with the CX7000 system.
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