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Hosted photos cannot be displayed in Cisco Jabber for Windows due to an issue supporting authenticated proxies, even if the server is listed in the Bypass setting. For more information on this item, see CSCul02706.
Microsoft Exchange 2013 has changed the way it handles cached contacts. This change may result in some cached contacts being stored in hidden folders in Microsoft Outlook that are not viewable or customizable by the end user.
As a result, the Cisco Jabber client may return duplicate and incorrect contacts when searching Microsoft Outlook. If the incorrect contacts are stored as a contact in a user's client, it may lead to other side-effects such as incorrect presence in both the client and Microsoft Outlook. This item is documented in CSCup78097.
The client can store up to 250 entries in your call history. This item is documented in CSCun44797.
If the options for Calling Party Information and Called Party Information are disabled in Cisco Unified Communications Manager, then users logged into Call Pickup in softphone mode do not see either calling party or called party information displayed in the call alert notification. However, if those options are disabled and users log into Call Pickup in deskphone mode, then calling party or called party information is still displayed in the alert.
If you select the Audio only notification on Cisco Unified Communications Manager and the user is on a call, then the user does not hear any sound indicating that there is a call to pick up.
If users select Pickup on their deskphone when in Deskphone Mode, a conversation window is displayed momentarily.
The pickup notification alert only displays a maximum of 23 characters.
The person receiving a call also receives a call pickup notification when they are URI dialed. This issue is documented in CSCuo75418.
Cisco Jabber for Windows does not currently support Check Point VPN.
As of this release, Cisco Medianet Metadata is no longer supported.
In Cisco Unity Connection, a dispatch message is sent to a distribution list with the message configured in such a way that only one user responds to that message. A user can accept, decline, or postpone the dispatch message. Cisco Jabber for Windows does not support Cisco Unity Connection dispatch messages.
If you enable the Legacy Immediate Divert option in Cisco Unified Communications Manager, users cannot decline calls when they are logged into Hunt Group in softphone mode, but can decline calls in deskphone mode. To disable users to decline Hunt Group calls in both softphone and deskphone mode, you must enable the parameter preventdeclineonhuntcall in the configuration file.
You must enter descriptions for each device if Cisco Jabber for Windows users have multiple deskphone devices of the same model. Cisco Jabber for Windows displays these descriptions to users so that they can distinguish between multiple deskphone devices. If you do not enter descriptions, the client displays the model name of the device and users cannot distinguish between various devices of the same model.
Setting your status to "Do Not Disturb" in the client does not divert or block incoming calls.
There is a limit of 2083 characters in the To field when sending an email to a group of contacts. Depending on the length of the email addresses and the number of contacts, not all contacts may be added to the email. For more information about the 2083 character limitation, see https://support.microsoft.com/en-ie/kb/208427. This limitation is documented in CSCuz80198.
Cisco Jabber for Windows does not currently support extension mobility cross cluster (EMCC).
Users' presence is unknown when the contact is manually added to contacts in Microsoft Outlook 2010 and 2013, when the contact is added to local (custom) contacts with an email address type of SMTP. To resolve this issue, delete the contact and add it again manually, ensuring the email address type is Exchange (EX). This item is documented in CSCuo57172.
Availability states change to 'Available' on all clients when users resume from hibernate on one client.
Resuming from idle overrides custom availability states.
Users who are signed in to multiple Cisco Jabber for Windows clients can join group chats from only one client.
Cisco Jabber for Windows does not always reformat incoming text correctly when the sender is signed in to a client other than Cisco Jabber for Windows.
If you use Plantronics accessories for Cisco Jabber call management, and if you have Plantronics Hub installed, ensure that at least version 3.5 is installed. Download Plantronics Hub 3.5 from the Plantronics website.
In this release, deploying SAML single sign-on is not supported if Expressway for Mobile and Remote Access is also deployed. If the Jabber client detects that Expressway for Mobile and Remote Access is deployed, it will never detect SAML SSO, even if you are not using it at the time.
When configuring SAML SSO on Cisco Unified Communications Manager and Unity Connection servers, you must use a fully qualified domain name (FQDN) instead of an IP Address to define the server name. If you use an IP Address, the client displays a warning message that the certificate is not valid. The requirement to use an FQDN is because the embedded Internet Explorer browser is not able to validate IP addresses in the Subject Alternate Name (SAN) certificate.
The following rules apply to space characters and credentials:
Software phones (CSF devices) are not supported in virtual environments. Use Cisco Virtualization Experience Media Engine (VXME) for Cisco Jabber for Windows call capabilities in a virtual environment.
The Cisco Jabber for Windows softphone fails to register with Cisco Unified Communications Manager when users enter some German special characters such as ü, ä, or ö in the username or password. The user receives the following error message: “Invalid username or password entered. Go to Phone Services in the Options window and enter the correct username and password". To resolve the issue, upgrade to Cisco Unified Communications Manager 9.1(2) or users should use lower ASCII characters for their username and passwords.
Cisco Jabber for Windows does not currently support CTI connections over transport layer security (TLS). As a result, Cisco Jabber for Windows users cannot switch from using a CSF device to using a desk phone device if they belong to the Standard CTI Secure Connection user group.
Installing Cisco Jabber for Windows and third-party unified communications applications on the same machine may result in unexpected behavior in the client and is not recommended.
If you are using UDS as a directory source, users can only use Click-To-X capabilities, such as Click-To-Call and Click-To-IM, to contact Microsoft Outlook users if they are already in the cache file. A cache file is created for someone if they are in the users' Cisco Jabber contacts list, or have a Cisco Jabber history created by the user previously searching, IMing, or calling them, or by leaving a voice message. This item is documented in CSCuo88534.
If users select Use my phone for calls in their client to enable deskphone mode, then they must log in or logout of their hunt groups using the deskphone. If users are in deskphone mode, then the Log Into Hunt Groups option in the Cisco Jabber client becomes disabled.
Users may experience resolution issues when using Jabber to make a call with a Lifesize Express 220 endpoint. If the user puts the call on hold, then after resuming the call the send and receive video resolutions on the Jabber end is greatly reduced. For more information, see CSCur02498.
The client cannot play broadcast voice messages.
Users add federated contact to their contact lists.
Users change the policy for contacts outside the domain from Prompt me every time to Block everyone on the Privacy tab of the Options window.
As a result, the federated contacts remain in the contact list but do not display availability. Likewise, users cannot send or receive instant messages from those federated contacts.
As a result, Cisco Unified Presence removed the federated contacts from the contact lists. Cisco Unified Presence does not repopulate the federated contacts.
Because Cisco Unified Presence removed the federated contacts from the contact lists, users must add the federated contacts to their contact lists again to send instant messages or display availability status to those federated contacts. However, the federated contacts can send instant messages to the users, even if they are not in the contact list.
You can disable file transfers and screen captures on Cisco Unified Communications IM and Presence with the Enable file transfer parameter.
If you are using Cisco Unified Presence 8.6.5 SU2 or earlier, or Cisco Unified Communications Manager IM and Presence 9.1.1 SU1 or earlier, the client might display users' presence as offline when the user is actually online and has a network connection. This presence issue is fixed in Cisco Unified Presence 8.6.5 SU3 and Cisco Unified Communications Manager IM and Presence 9.1.1 SU1 and 10.0.1. This item is documented in CSCui29999.
The following rules apply to space characters and credentials in on-premises deployment scenarios:
Blocking users does not prevent a blocked user's status from being displayed if the blocked users are in a contact list as part of an enterprise group. For example, User A blocks User B. However, User A is in User B's contact list as part of an enterprise group. As a result, User B can view User A's availability status.
In late 2011, the WebEx server made changes to how photos are stored and formatted on the server. Due to this change, any photo uploaded before January 1, 2012 is not displayed in the client. To resolve the issue, users must re-upload the photo. For more information on this item, see CSCui05676.
When the client receives an incoming call, an incorrect contact name can display. This can occur when you have a contact in Microsoft Outlook that has the same phone number as a contact in your company directory.
Two meeting reminders are displayed for a meeting. One reminder displays the Time to join message. The other reminder includes a Meeting details link. Both reminders are sent automatically by the meeting host at the meeting start time. This behavior is documented in CSCuz06684.
Users can only remove participants from a conference call when using the softphone(CSF) device for calls. Users can't remove participants from conference calls in desk phone control mode or using extend and connect.
The settings to define the behavior of conversation windows are sometimes bypassed during conference calls. For example, a user configures the behavior of conversation windows to never come to the front. Then, during a conference call, the conversation window is brought to the front to add users to the conference call.
There are some situations where the conversation window does not behave as expected to benefit the user experience. These items are documented in CSCuo83446, CSCuo83415, CSCuo83452, CSCuo83387.
When users first sign-in using SAML SSO, they may be prompted to enter their user credentials outside of the Identity Provider (IdP). On subsequent logins, they are prompted by the IDP for credentials. This is because the user's email address is required to confirm whether they are enabled for SSO, and when the user supplies credentials, they are used to the email address associated with their username to confirm this information to determine whether the user is enabled for SSO.
To avoid initially prompting the user twice for their credentials upon initial sign-in to SAML SSO, you can set a parameter that requires the user to sign in using their email address, which immediately confirms their status as being SSO-enabled and does not prompt them a second time to provide credentials.
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For more information on this parameter, see the parameters description in the Cisco Jabber Deployment and Installation Guide.
If you are upgrading to this release, and your client is enabled for IM-only mode, then you must set the Telephony_Enabled parameter to false. If you do not set this parameter in IM-only mode deployments, then users may see disabled telephony capabilities on their user interface.
In localized versions of the client, the icons on the hub window contain descriptive text, such as Contacts, Recents, Voice Messages, and Meetings. When this text is localized into other languages, if the translation of the text for even one icon is too long to be displayed on the user interface, then no text is displayed for any of the icons.
For on-premise deployments, if Cisco Unified Communications Manager IM and Presence Service is upgraded from release 9.1(1) to release 10.5(2) and clients appear in phone-only mode after the upgrade, then all clients must be reset.
When a user's first name or last name is changed either in LDAP or UDS directories, Cisco Jabber does not automatically update this information in the contact list for all watchers of this user. Users must manually update their contact lists using the following procedure: