Introducing Unity - Cisco Unity Installation Manual

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
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
Unity, provides fax server functionality on the Unity server or on
a separate server.
Fax server software
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.
Microsoft Internet Explorer version 4.01 or
Internet Explorer
later is required for Web browser access to the Unity administra-
tion pages and to subscribers' ActiveAssistant
or later is required to access the Unity Status Monitor. (Netscape
Navigator ® is not supported.)
Internet Information Server
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
and Outlook 2000 support ViewMail
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.")
ActiveFax, the optional fax component of
When an installation includes integrating a
Microsoft Internet Information
Microsoft Outlook
® for Microsoft Outlook. With
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