Cisco Cisco TelePresence Management Suite (TMS) Version 15 Release Notes
New features
Cisco TMS Release Notes (14.3.1)
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WebEx Enabled TelePresence support
It is now possible to schedule video meetings in Cisco TMS that include both TelePresence and WebEx
participants:
participants:
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Combined WebEx and TelePresence meetings with fully integrated video between the two.
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Seamless booking of TelePresence systems and WebEx users through Cisco TMS.
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Support for booking meetings with WebEx from the Booking API.
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Support for Single Sign On, also referred to as Delegated Authentication within WebEx.
Time zone awareness
As of version 14.2, all booking-related functionality in Cisco TMS is fully time zone aware. This functionality
is necessary to ensure the validity of bookings that span daylight savings time (DST) change events and
other changes to time zones.
is necessary to ensure the validity of bookings that span daylight savings time (DST) change events and
other changes to time zones.
The changes include:
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Booking-related dates are now stored in UTC on the server, along with a full set of DST change rules for
the time zone in which the conference was booked.
the time zone in which the conference was booked.
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Conferences that were booked prior to upgrading to Cisco TMS 14.2 will be automatically updated with the
current time zone information available for the server time zone.
current time zone information available for the server time zone.
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The Conference Booking Time setting in Conference Settings has been removed.
Existing data from previous releases may contain discrepancies affecting meetings spanning DST change
events.
events.
The Cisco TMS Time Zone Update Tool is supplied to assist administrators in avoiding incorrect meeting
times post upgrade from previous versions.For backwards compatibility with reporting functionality, dates
are also stored in the local server time.
times post upgrade from previous versions.For backwards compatibility with reporting functionality, dates
are also stored in the local server time.
The time zone update tool uses Cisco TMSBA to modify time zones. Note that you cannot change the time
zone of an existing conference using the Cisco TMS web interface.
zone of an existing conference using the Cisco TMS web interface.
Prior to this release, all bookings were automatically made in the configured Cisco TMS server time zone.
Conversion from server time zone to UTC would therefore sometimes fail in connection with DST changes.
Conversion from server time zone to UTC would therefore sometimes fail in connection with DST changes.
Note that changing the time zone of the Cisco TMS server is still not supported.
For more detail on how the time zone changes affect booking data and time zone data migration, see Cisco
TelePresence Management Suite Installation Guide.
TelePresence Management Suite Installation Guide.