Cisco Cisco TelePresence Management Suite (TMS) Version 15 Release Notes
New features
Cisco TelePresence Management Suite Release Notes Software Release Notes (14.6.1)
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New features
New in 14.6.1
Updated localization
This release includes updated localization for all supported languages and multiple localization improvements
to the Cisco TMS software.
to the Cisco TMS software.
New in 14.6
Externally Hosted Conference
You can now book conferences hosted on a bridge outside of Cisco TMS using the
Booking > New
Conference
page or the booking API (Cisco TMSBA).
To book from the
New Conference
page, check Externally Hosted and provide a SIP URI in the Video
Address field.
Note that externally hosted conferences do not support adding the following features: WebEx, cascading,
Cisco TMS-managed bridges, dial-out participants, recording, or encryption.
Cisco TMS-managed bridges, dial-out participants, recording, or encryption.
Changes to the users that receive booking confirmation and cancellation emails
All users involved in booking a conference will now receive booking confirmation and error notification email
messages when the conference is booked, updated, or deleted. This includes the following:
messages when the conference is booked, updated, or deleted. This includes the following:
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Conference creator: The user who books the conference.
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Conference owner.
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Any other user who has ever updated the conference.
Note that the service accounts used for Cisco TMSXE, Cisco TMSXN or Cisco TMSPE Smart Scheduler
will now receive a large number of emails, as they are involved in all bookings made through these interfaces.
If this becomes and issue, do one of the following:
will now receive a large number of emails, as they are involved in all bookings made through these interfaces.
If this becomes and issue, do one of the following:
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Configure your mail server to archive and purge old emails for these accounts.
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Change the service user's email address in Cisco TMS to noreply@example.org or similar.
Conference save performance improvements
Saving a conference is now significantly faster in large deployments.
The routing mechanism has been improved to optimize bridge selection during booking, by distributing
conferences more evenly across bridges in your deployment.
conferences more evenly across bridges in your deployment.
Cisco TMS will now randomly select a bridge if there are two or more that are identical (model, IP zone,
protocols, and so on), which minimizes delays when allocating and launching conferences.
protocols, and so on), which minimizes delays when allocating and launching conferences.
Previously Cisco TMS would always favor the same bridge if there were two or more that were identical.
Improved handling of changes to ongoing conferences
Adding or removing participants from ongoing conferences will never change the Main participant (conference
host).
host).