UCA Sharing contacts or uc.mdb

[bradles]

Thanks for any input here.

Can UCA point to the same uc.mdb database?

Mitel 3300 system with Unified Communicator Advanced running on a Windows 2003 Terminal Server. All users have the need to access the same contacts while the PIM integration with Outlook fails due to the single server setup.

All users have contacts stored in the "C:\Documents and Settings\Username\Application Data\Mitel Corporation\UC\uc.mdb" location that if edited directly (MS Access) appear in UCA.

So, are there any settings to alter UCA's behviour to point to the same uc.mdb on the network (say G:\Data\uc.mdb)?

I've trawled through the registry without finding anything.

 

[Mitelmatt]

If you have all the contacts in AD, then the UCA server pulls them in from AD, this is then sharded out?

 

[bradles]

Thanks Mitelmatt,

UCA might grab the AD details for corporate contacts initially and those details can then be edited in uc.mdb without any change to AD details. In addition any extra contacts that are added through the UCA interface are added to uc.mdb without being inserted into AD (a good thing). And any changes to uc.mdb are not overwritten between windows sessions either.

We want to share a list of extra contacts amongst all UCA users and the easiest way would be to point UCA to a common uc.mdb on the network instead of it's default behaviour of a seperate databse for each user. I just can't find any settings to modify this obvious behaviour like a database connection string, so any help is appreciated.

Brad

 

[JimHilton]

Hmmm thinking out loud, the first thing that I'm curious about is why the terminal server? My thoughts on that are it is what allows multiple users connect to the dbase with out creating any "exclusive locks".

I could be wrong about this, but I doubt there would be a connection string persay. Probably just a hard link to the .mdb file itself.

There is a DOS command you can use to trick the computer into thinking that "c:\somedir\somefile" is say O:\ I think its called substitue or sub been too long can't remember.

 

[bradles]

Appreciate your reply Jim,

I'm starting to think the only way is to copy a master uc.mdb to each users "C:\Documents and Settings\Username\Application Data\Mitel Corporation\UC\uc.mdb" through a logon script.

Unfortunately this prevents any editing of contacts through the UCA interface without either losing any changes or creating another way of updating the master uc.mdb from any user changes.

Thanks

 

[bradles]

...and I'll add the terrible latency of updates for users occuring only after each logon.

Surely there is a way to point UCA to a common path!!