Where does Jabber for Windows 10.6(x) store location information?

[david.wright2]

I understand J4W 10.6(x) detects new locations based on the mac address of the default gateway of the network it is running on. Where does it store the last known mac-address location information? Perhaps in registry keys?

Would be nice if you to pre-populate this on install for known locations to standardise the name of the location, or new locations by pushing keys via group policy.

[Manish Gogna]

Hi David,

An enhancement is open to track this

https://tools.cisco.com/bugsearch/bug/CSCut90096/?reffering_site=dumpcr

Jabber for Windows request to pre-populate Locations info

CSCut90096

Description

Symptom:
Location info is detected within the code of Jabber with no way to pre-populate it for mass deployment

Conditions:
Jabber for Windows 10.6

Workaround:
None

HTH

Manish

[david.wright2 · Accepted solution]

Thanks Manish!

[jbburks]

That bug says there is no fix planned.

Is there any information on when we might be able to configure locations on the server?

[rchaseling]

Hi,

Anyone heard of any update of when/if the pre-populating of locations will be possible?

Thanks

[Scott Holden]

We're very interested in this as well.  User-entered location names of known office locations easily gets out of hand: HQ, Main Office, Work, La La Land, Job, Cubicle, etc.

Would be nice to force some location names.

[Kevin Przybylowski]

Is there any indication that this will be added in the future?