06-26-2014 11:00 AM - edited 03-17-2019 04:17 PM
I am setting up Jabber (9.7) for one of my customers and they want everyone to just log in and have the entire company already in their contact list. That seems like a reasonable request however I cannot figure out how to do it other then searching for each person and adding them to your contact list. Please tell me that there is a better way.
The customer is AD integrated, the rest of the users should just be there on first login but that does not appear to be the case unless I'm wrong which happens frequently lately.
06-26-2014 06:09 PM
How many users are in AD/Company?
Under CUPAdmin> Presence > Settings is a maximum contact list. Normally it's around 200 people or so. I don't see this is doable without a lot of horsepower.
Every time you open Jabber your sending/requesting Presence Subscription information, etc. Every change the occurs the client sends your status. Imagine in a meeting beign sent to two thousand clients every time a action (busy/free/away) occurs?
Jabber isn't really a address book like Outlook.
06-27-2014 12:49 AM
There is a way (via bulk administration on the presence server), but DON'T ever do that!
The thing is, you can add contacts but you can't delete/remove them! So you have to explain your users why you can add new users via the presence server but why they have to delete them (locally) from their Jabber if a contact has gone.
A better solution would be a feature that I know from other xmpp server like openfire (active directory based roosters). I recently had a discussion with someone with the same need. He told me, that he woul open a feature request. See this discussion https://supportforums.cisco.com/discussion/12240821/jabber-contact-lists
Maybe you can vote/push for this feature request...
If you want to use bulk administration, I have added you a sample contact list file.
06-27-2014 11:29 AM
hello
You can create contact lists in .xml format and then import them into Cisco Jabber.
Procedure
Step 1 Open the main Cisco Jabber window.
Step 2 Select File > Import contacts....
Step 3 Browse to the location of the contact list definitions XML file.
Step 4 Select the contact list definitions file and then select Open
for example:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<buddylist>
<group>
<gname>Sales</gname>
<user>
<uname>amckenzi@example.com</uname>
<fname>Adam McKenzie</fname>
</user>
<user>
<uname>aperez@example.com</uname>
<fname>Anita Perez</fname>
</user>
</group>
<group>
<gname>Marketing</gname>
<user>
<uname>nfox@example.com</uname>
<fname>Nancy Fox</fname>
</user>
</group>
</buddylist>
10-19-2015 04:04 PM
Hello Ivan,
I created a contact .xml file and successfully imported in jabber but my problem is
Please give me any suggestion on this..
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