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OCS
Provisioning OCS Management and Administration: Native OCS
Tools are Labor-intensive and Potentially Compromise OCS
Security and Data Integrity
Deployment and capacity
planning for Microsoft Office Communications Server is
exceptionally difficult. Careful consideration must be given to
the significant provisioning and administration challenges OCS
system administrators will face on a daily basis:
- OCS
system security and data integrity will be compromised
if system administrators delegate tasks to the help desk
because every delegated administrator will have full
administrative privileges in OCS—native OCS tools only offer
all-or-nothing access.
- Ongoing
OCS user administration is time-consuming and labor-intensive
because native OCS interfaces do not support bulk updates
to user configurations.
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Standardization or enforcement of business processes to OCS
is almost impossible without spending a lot of dollars
to build complex code and logic.
- Native
OCS interfaces provide little or no support for
integration with existing identity management and
maintenance systems.
- Native
OCS interfaces do not allow system administrators to manage
OCS server pools automatically during the provisioning
process. As a result, system administrators must
manually track the number of users on an OCS server pool
to maintain any semblance of control over resource
management.
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Ensim Unify
allows you to deploy OCS & Group Chat without compromising
security and compliance initiatives and without burdening IT
resources. Click here
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Automate, Secure, and Simplify OCS Provisioning and Ongoing OCS
Administration with Ensim Unify
Unify OCS Manager extends
the features of Unify’s core engine to OCS provisioning, OCS
management and OCS administration:
- Unify’s
template-based provisioning gives system
administrators the ability to define various different
‘flavors’ of OCS functionality according to the usage
requirements of different groups of users within your
organization.
- Unify
enables OCS system administrators to customize and control
auto-provisioning of OCS users across multiple server
pools. System administrators can use Unify to either
load balance or tight pack their OCS server pools.
- Unify’s
customizable and extensible provisioning workflow
allows OCS system administrators to integrate and enforce
your business processes for OCS provisioning. These
extensions can be used to implement authorization processes,
customize notifications to users, or anything else that
might be required by processes unique to your OCS
environment.
- Unify’s
robust web services API allows full interoperability
and integration with existing ERP or intranet systems.
- Unify’s
role-based delegated administration ensures that
system administrators do not have to give out elevated OCS
permissions to help desk administrators. The granularity in
Unify’s role-based delegated administration empowers OCS
system administrators to delegate down as much—or as
little—control as they want.
- All
system activity is logged in Unify’s transaction logs.
Who, where, what, and when information is recorded for each
OCS action performed through Unify.
Benefits
- A
full-featured OCS provisioning solution helps system
administrators deploy and manage OCS user accounts
quickly. In the absence of a solution like Ensim Unify,
enterprises must undertake a very expensive internal build
project—with the added risk that they will end up with a
sub-optimal solution. The ROI offered by Unify’s
out-of-the-box OCS provisioning support is unparalleled.
- Unify’s
robust snap-in approach allows you to get the maximum
return from their existing investment in the supporting
infrastructure. Unlike other approaches, which require
overhauling existing systems or building new siloed systems,
Unify just fits on existing infrastructure and works
seamlessly with your existing processes.
- Unify’s
granular role-based delegated administration allows you to
secure your OCS infrastructure by controlling who can
do what in OCS. This helps minimize OCS downtime
caused by malicious attacks.
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Standardization of OCS provisioning policies and enforcement
of business processes helps system administrators avoid
OCS misconfiguration and costly OCS maintenance overheads.
- Detailed
OCS transaction and system activity logs help you to meet
compliance and security audits.
Ensim Unify
OCS Manager eliminates the cost and complexity of manual OCS
provisioning and administration via OCS’ native interfaces. OCS
Manager lets you take full advantage of all the features and
benefits of OCS R2, with minimal IT overhead and strict
adherence to your IT compliance and security policies for
Microsoft OCS.
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Provisioning and OCS Management Data Sheet
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