Telephony settings

The Telephony page allows you to change settings relating to the telephony connection settings.

Server

This text box should contain the name or IP address of your telephony server.

Extension

The Extension option contains the local user's extension number.

Login details

This allows Xchange Mac Client to support a number of different operations. Most users log in to their computer as a name (or username) that is the same, or similar to their own name. Or in other words, they log in as a name that uniquely identifies them. Xchange Mac Client can take advantage of this to associate this user name with the extension that the user is logging in as. This behaviour, of associating the user and the extension number, gives Xchange Mac Client some powerful functionality such as "hotdesking" where other others can reach you, by name, even if you temporarily use another computer. If you like this functionality, but don't use "unique" usernames (i.e. you log into your computer as something like "user" or "technician") then you can still use it by manually declaring your username and password on the User tab. Your administrator will have to create a user on the telephony server for you first. Finally, if you want to be completely anonymous as a user on your network, then you can choose not to log in. Be careful if you use this, though, because there are some features in the software that require a logged in user to work.