IPAD connector

Does the process of provisioning IP telephony add to your management challenge? Does having a different directory for your telephony result in inconsistent contact information? Do you consistently disable access to everything – including telephony - when employees leave the organisation?

If you identify with these issues, you could benefit from a tool that automates the provisioning and management of new users across voice and data networks.

Integrating Cisco IP Telephony into Microsoft Active Directory

Dimension Data’s IP Telephony/Active Directory (IPAD) Connector is a user-provisioning solution that streamlines the management of identities across voice and data network environments.

IPAD simplifies the deployment and management of IP telephony by integrating user identities between Microsoft® Active Directory and Cisco Unified CallManager. It acts as middleware between these two vendor technologies to ensure that both directories are consistent and up-to-date.

IPAD reduces the cost, time and security risk associated with updating multiple directories by integrating Cisco Unified CallManager into Microsoft® Active Directory.

IPAD enables unified communications with accurate and up-to-date contact information – key to successful collaboration.

IPAD integrates the Microsoft® Active Directory and Cisco Unified CallManager environment by:

• Providing a single point of user administration
• Ensuring consistent replication of user information
• Managing additions, changes and deletions
• Providing logging of changes to these environments
• Allowing mapping of data fields between the two systems
• Scaling to connect additional directories for a complete identity management system

Supported Platforms

• Cisco Unified CallManager V4.0 and higher
• Microsoft® Active Directory
• Microsoft® Windows 2000 and higher

Features

• Does not  require schema changes to Microsoft® Active Directory
• No modifications required to Cisco Unified CallManager
• Supports all Cisco Unified CallManager user attributes
• Supports mapping/transformation of user attributes between systems
• Performs logging of all changes
• Supports multiple extensions
• Can be extended to support additional user directories and applications

Dimension Data has significant experience integrating Microsoft and Cisco environments. IPAD leverages the identity infrastructure of Microsoft® Active Directory to consistently manage the Cisco Unified CallManager environment without requiring changes to either system.