Register With Microsoft Lync Server 2010 - Polycom CX5500 Administrator's Manual

Polycom CX5500 Unified Conference Station Administrator's Guide
Note: Understanding the Lync Contact List and Your Phone's Local Contact Directory
When you are running CX5500 software for use with Lync Server 2010, you have access to two
separate contact lists: the default local contact directory on your CX5500 system and a Lync contact
list. If you want to disable the local contact directory on your CX5500 system or make it read-only,
see Use the Local Contact

Register with Microsoft Lync Server 2010

You can register the CX5500 system with Lync Server 2010 in one of three ways:
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Using the Web Configuration Utility
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Using centralized provisioning, which includes a provisioning server and configuration files in XML
format.
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From the phone user interface
Note: Registering a Phone with Lync Server 2010
For details on using the phone user interface and for details on each registration method, including
registration instructions, see
Server 2010.
Set the Base Profile to Lync - Phone User Interface and Web
Configuration Utility
You can quickly register phones with the Lync Server by setting the phone's Base Profile to Lync from the
phone's user interface or using the Web Configuration Utility. Note that although registering the phone
using either of these two methods is simpler than centralized provisioning, each method registers one
phone at a time. In addition, you cannot enable extensive diagnostic logging that the phone writes to the
provisioning server, contact directory files, or phone user interface language files.
Centralized Provisioning
You can register multiple phones to Lync Server using a provisioning server and configuration files in
XML format. You can provision your phones with Lync Server 2010 using the lync.cfg template
configuration file included with Polycom CX5500 softwre. Polycom recommends using this method - also
called centralized provisioning - when deploying multiple phones, about twenty or more. A provisioning
server enables you to store configuration files in a single location on a server, which simplifies
maintenance of feature settings and updates for multiple phones. In addition, use of a provisioning server
allows the phones to send diagnostic and other information to files stored on the server, including log
files, a contact directory, individual call lists, and multiple languages on the phone user interface.
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