Usb File/Device Support; Contacts File Format For Usb Devices - Avaya one-X 9600 Series Administrator's Manual

Administering Applications and Options
Mobility/Visiting User: The USB memory stick carries login credentials, contacts and/or
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digital pictures. Inserting a USB device will cause the phone to register with a login profile,
allowing any 9600 Series IP Telephone to become a personalized extension.
Deskphone Personalization: A USB memory stick supports import/export of contacts to/
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from a 9600 Series IP Telephone and/or display of digital pictures.
Users and administrators can use the Avaya one-X™ Deskphone USB Companion, a
PC-based USB management tool that converts Microsoft Office Outlook contacts to a format
usable by 9600 Series IP Deskphones, and provides an easy way to format other files, like
digital pictures that will be used as screensavers. This pc-based tool is available on the Avaya
support Web site.

USB File/Device Support

Only FAT or FAT32 file systems are currently supported. The following are not currently
supported:
USB drives with NTFS file systems are not supported.
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USB devices with multiple partitions or multiple LUNS are not supported.
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U3 USB devices are not supported.
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Contacts File Format for USB Devices

As of software Release 2.0, Contacts lists can be imported or exported to or from all 9600
Series IP Telephones (except the 9608 and 9610) via a USB device like a Flash drive or
memory stick. The telephone user guide provides detailed information on this capability.
Contact files merged or written to the phone's Contacts list must be in a specific format. The
user guides advise end users of two ways to ensure that a Contact list is formatted properly.
The rest of this section documents the 9xxxContacts.txt file requirements. Use this information
as a guide to export contacts from Outlook and other similar software applications without using
the Avaya one-X™ Deskphone USB Companion tool.
The contacts file must be a little-endian Unicode text file. That is, each 'character' in the file is a
16-bit integer value, stored least significant byte first. The first two bytes of the file are a Byte
Order Mark which must be FF followed by FE (hexadecimal). The file name must be
"9xxxContacts.txt" (without the quotes).
Each contact entry consists of a single line, terminated by <CR><LF> (Carriage Return, 000D
hex, and Line Feed, 000A hex). An entry contains 1 name, 1 to 3 phone numbers, and 0 to 3
types. Separate the fields within each contact entry with one or more tabs.
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