Personal address Book - Import

Hi,
Some webmail users want to do a bulk add from Global address Book to Personal address book....this seems to be a manual process....is there a better way of doing it ....instead of adding the users one by one manually....?
iMS 5.2 hf 2.08

There is no "supported" method of doing this. Some folks have written scripts to help. In any case, there's nothing I'd feel comfortable giving a user to use. Everything would be done on the server level.
How about giving them access on a dropdown to the global adddress book? I think the Customization Guide talks about doing that.

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CUCM 8.6 Personal Address Book entry limitation?

Hi Experts,
Can one of you tell me what is the limitation of Personal Address Book entries?
Done a quick search
https://supportforums.cisco.com/thread/2153123
according to this on 8.5 is 1000.
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- is it per phone or this is the system limitation (per ?server?) ? if having two CUCMs, will this be 2x 1000 (if 1000 is still the case for 8.6)?
Thanks in advance!
Kind regards,
Tibor

Nelson:
The URL that is working for us is:
http://10.2.5.234:8080/ccmpd/pdCheckLogin.do?name=#DEVICENAME#&service=pab
then use your own IP address for the Call Manager node.
Our Call Manager configuration is shown below.
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Check this article for more information on how to create a mailing list.
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We are running GW 7.0.3. BES 4.1.6.23 I don't remember the mr number. The BES is running the GW 6.5.7 client. I have one user out of 40 that is experiencing this. The personal address book that the Blackberry (BB) is supposed to sync to is empty, however, all of the contact entries are on the BB. We tried to track this down the other day and while we were looking at her GW client the entries popped back in. Now they are gone again. We have not done anything that would cause the entries to pop back into the address book. We did notice that her BB had just synced in the last minute.
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Filter on the BB is based on catagory, so I would suspect that it wasn't done on the device; now if the user could have don it on the GW client but I wouldn't expect that to effect the sync to BES? That's a odd one, I may have to try that myself and see if I duplicate it!
But no, if the filter was turned on in the GW address book, only the user could have done it or someone logged into GW as that user.
<[email protected]> wrote in message news:[email protected]...
We found that the view filter in the GW client had been turned on so only groups would show. The problem is the user did not make this change. All of her addresses returned when she turned filtering off. Is there any way this could occur without manual intervention by the user? Thanks.
>>> <[email protected]> 2/4/2010 7:53:AM >>>
SOAP. Also we will be upgrading GW to 8.0.1 on 2/13/10. Are there issues with my system after the upgrade that I should be aware of? I will post back with test results. Thanks.
>>> Michael Rae<[email protected]> 2/3/2010 1:16:PM >>>
Are you running your BES in SOAP mode or OAPI? Soap on 4.1 has major issues.
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<[email protected]> wrote in message news:[email protected]...
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Personal Address Book in clients other than Outlook ( e.g. Thunderbird )

Does anybody know what the latest is on PAB integration in Thunderbird. This is a big turn-off for using JES. I am looking at the JCS for two reasons 1.) as an alternative to Ms proprietary lock-in and 2.) for an more open platform to integrate a some of our own software. It's quite frustrating that Sun are supporting Outlook almost exclusively. Convergence is great, but not a replacement for a thick email client. I really like Thunderbird but I can't access personal address books.
Any links for how to add a shared address book in Thunderbird? I'm sure I managed to sync at least the corporate address book when I reviewed JCS 5, but i can't remember and can't find a how to.
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shane_hjorth wrote:
ethoms wrote:
Does anybody know what the latest is on PAB integration in Thunderbird.There is no integration that I am aware of or any planned on the horizon. A major limitation to any development of LDAP PAB integration is the lack of LDAP write support in Thunderbird. Any future movement will be more towards CardDAV as per:
http://wikis.sun.com/display/CommSuite/Project+Aries
It's quite frustrating that Sun are supporting Outlook almost exclusively.Sun is expending a large amount of resources (staff) into the Lightning project which is providing calendar functionality into Thunderbird. That is why there has been so much progress on this front over the past 12 - 18 months. Sun has also rolled Lightning out internally giving it even higher visibility.
http://weblogs.mozillazine.org/calendar/
I'm sure this group would appreciate any feedback, testing etc. that you could provide.
Convergence is great, but not a replacement for a thick email client. I really like Thunderbird but I can't access personal address books.I agree it is definitely a limitation but at this time priorities are elsewhere.
I'm sure I managed to sync at least the corporate address book when I reviewed JCS 5, but i can't remember and can't find a how to.Accessing the read-only corporate address-book should be relatively straight-forward. A quick google shows up a number of examples e.g.
http://www.cam.ac.uk/cs/email/ldapsettings/mozilla.html
I have even considered writing a Thunderbird addon myself to access Address Books using ldap but it seems the PAB entries are locked by Directory Manager access and not available to the PAB user. Is there anywhere else to locate the PAB entries other than at "dn=piPStoreOwner=euan,o=potensol.com,o=PiServerDb" ?The other way would be to access the data using the WAPB protocol to the Convergence/UWC installation which is what Outlook Connector uses to access the address-book information. Unfortunately this protocol isn't yet publicly available. Feel free to push this with your Sun Account Manager.Regards,
Shane.Thank's Shane, your responses are always thorough and very helpful.Thanks for the link for LDAP shared address books in Thunderbird, I think that was the very article I used last time, should have bookmarked it.
I think it was harsh to say "It's quite frustrating that Sun are supporting Outlook almost exclusively.", I didn't realise they had involvement on the lightning project. Since my orignal post I have managed to install the plugin (v 0.8) and connect to my calendars. For feedback, so far it looks awesome, I was so impressed to see my tasks I added in convergence, in Thunderbird. I do recommend a 'how to' guide on Sun's website explaining exactly how to connect to it (couldn't find one myself from google). The 'how to' on mozilla's site forgets to mention that port must be specified (if it's not port 80, I use single-host deployment). Yet to try the experimental caching feature, will give feedback on that another time.
Will check out CardDAV shortly, thanks for link.
Overall, I am really happy with the JCS. If PAB and shared address book read/write/cache are implemented in Thunderbird/Evolution/Outlook then it would be the perfect comms suite. Servers seems to run really well although I have not put any real load on them yet. :-)

Personal Address Book Error !

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i have added the ip phone service personal address book,subcribered the service for the phone,and i can see the service from the phone when i press the services button.But when i search the entry in the PAB ,it shows the message "Error:-7ffbc5c2:User(none)was unable to be validated(14910)",what's wrong with it?
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It sounds like you've subscribed the service but haven't either defined the correct parameters, or set the parameters for the user you are subscribing.
As you create the service in CCMAdmin, you need to defined userid, pin and prefix parameters as defined in this document:
http://www.cisco.com/en/US/products/sw/voicesw/ps556/products_tech_note09186a00800b2eba.shtml
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Nelson:
The URL that is working for us is:
http://10.2.5.234:8080/ccmpd/pdCheckLogin.do?name=#DEVICENAME#&service=pab
then use your own IP address for the Call Manager node.
Our Call Manager configuration is shown below.
To access the feature, we hit the Services Button, are prompted with a Personal Address Book option, select it, then are promoted for a UserID/PIN (shown further below), at which point I enter my LDAP ID and a PIN. The PIN is created in Call Manager under User Management ==> End User ==> PIN.
Good luck with your process.
Dan

I want to make a new "Address Book" in Thunderdird's Address Book in addition to "Personal Address Book" and "Collected Addresses"

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Open address book window
From the menu bar select File-New-Address Book
No menu bar? Press the alt key.

I want to delete all the cards in personal address book and collected address, so I delete all of them, but when I reboot thunderbird, they all came back.

I want to delete all the cards in personal address book and collected address, so I delete all of them, but when I reboot thunderbird, they all came back.

Select Help/Troubleshooting Information, click Show Folder to open the profile folder in your OS's file manager, exit TB, delete (or move to another location) abook.mab (Personal Address Book) and history.mab (Collected Addresses). When you restart TB, you should have empty PAB and CA address books.

How do I change the default address book from the Personal Address Book?

Whenever I click on an email address from within an email and ask to add it to my address book, the contact is added to Personal Address Book. How do I change that so that new addresses will be added to another book?

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Call Manager Phone Services to Personal Address Book

Cisco Forum:
I'm trying to configure Call Manager (8.6.2.x) for Phone Services so that we can use the IP Phone's Service button to access the Personal Address Book & Fast Dials. While I have the option (Test PAB-Fast Dial) appearing when the Services button is selected, the process ends with the bottom screen shot showing "Error in Authentication."
By using the Directories button then selecting the Personal Address Book, I can successfully log into the application.
What am I missing? Below is the current URL being used.
Thank you.
Dan
http://10.2.5.234:8080/ccmpd/login.do?name=#DEVICENAME#&service=pab

Nelson:
The URL that is working for us is:
http://10.2.5.234:8080/ccmpd/pdCheckLogin.do?name=#DEVICENAME#&service=pab
then use your own IP address for the Call Manager node.
Our Call Manager configuration is shown below.
To access the feature, we hit the Services Button, are prompted with a Personal Address Book option, select it, then are promoted for a UserID/PIN (shown further below), at which point I enter my LDAP ID and a PIN. The PIN is created in Call Manager under User Management ==> End User ==> PIN.
Good luck with your process.
Dan

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