Cisco Cisco Expressway Release Notes

Feature / change

X8.6

Cisco IP Phone 7800/8800 Series over MRA

Preview with endpoint version 10.3.1 or later

Multiple Presence Domains via MRA

Preview

Japanese, Korean, Russian localizations

X8.5.1 UI

Changes and minor enhancements

Supported

Table 1 Feature history by release number (continued)

Support for Desktop Sharing from Lync

The Expressway now supports desktop or application sharing from Lync clients with conference participants using
Cisco Collaboration endpoints.

The Expressway does the transcoding of the Microsoft Remote Desktop Protocol (RDP), originating from the Lync
client, into the Binary Floor Control Protocol (BFCP) used by many standards-based endpoints. The Expressway does
not perform the reverse transcoding from BFCP to RDP, and presentation towards Lync will go in the video channel as
in previous releases.

The following deployments support desktop sharing from Lync:

Figure 1: Lync environment to TelePresence Server conference registered to VCS

Figure 2: Lync environment to TelePresence Server conference managed by TelePresence Conductor
neighbored to VCS

Figure 3: Lync environment to TelePresence Server conference managed by TelePresence Conductor trunked
to Unified CM

Note:

† If you are using the Optimize Resources feature with Lync desktop sharing, you need TelePresence Server version
4.2 or later

‡ If you are using the Optimize Resources feature with Lync desktop sharing, you need TelePresence Conductor
version XC4.0

To configure your Cisco Collaboration environment to interoperate with Microsoft Lync, see the Microsoft Lync and
Cisco Expressway Deployment Guide on the

Cisco Expressway Series Configuration Guides

page.

Cloud Extensions

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