Address Book - Polycom RealPresence 1500 Administrator's Manual

Address Book

The Address Book stores information about the people and businesses you communicate with. The
Address Book stores, among many other fields, IP addresses, phone numbers and network communication
protocols used by the participant's endpoint. By utilizing the Address Book you can quickly and efficiently
assign or designate participants to conferences. Groups defined in the Address Book help facilitate the
creation of conferences. Participants can be added to the Address Book individually or in Groups.
The maximum of number of Address Book entries that can be defined on the RealPresence Collaboration
Server is 4000.
When using the Polycom
all entries are listed.
The Address Book can be organized into a multi-level hierarchical structure. It can be used to mirror the
organizational layout of the enterprises and it is especially suitable for large-scale enterprises with a
considerable number of conference participants and organizational departments and divisions. Groups in
the Address Book can contain sub-groups or sub-trees, and individual address book participant entities.
The Address Book provides flexibility in arranging conference participants into groups in multiple levels and
the capabilities to add groups or participants, move or copy participants to multiple groups within the address
book, and use the address book to add groups and participants to a conference or Conference Template.
Importing and exporting of Address Books enables organizations to seamlessly distribute up-to-date
Address Books to multiple Collaboration Server units. It is not possible to distribute Address Books to
external databases running on applications such as the RealPresence Resource Manager or Polycom
CMA. External databases can run in conjunction with Collaboration Server units, but must be managed from
the external application. For example, new participants cannot be added to the external database from the
Collaboration Server Web Client. To enable the Collaboration Server to run with an external database such
as RealPresence Resource Manager or Polycom CMA, the appropriate system configuration flags must be
set.
For more information, see
Integration with the Global Address Book of the RealPresence Resource Manager or
CMA
is supported. For more information, see
Collaboration
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CMA and Polycom
Modifying System Flags.
Server. Integration with the SE200 GAB (Global Address Book) is not supported.
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RealPresence Resource Manager
Integrating the Global Address Book (GAB) with the
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Global Address Book,
Polycom
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